ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,630, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Vehicle mobility patterns based on user location data" was invented by Matei Stroila (Chicago), Narayanan Alwar (Bloomingdale, Ill.), Timothy W. Gibson (Barrington, Ill.) and Sunil Chintakindi (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer-readable media, software, and system may generally build and quantify mobility patterns based on user location data, both at an individual level and an aggregate level. The system may determine the origin and destination data for each trip taken by a user. The system may then define areas of mobi...