US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on Sept. 9 for "Vehicle mode determination based on edge-computing" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,437, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Vehicle mode determination based on edge-computing" was invented by Venu Tammali (Chicago), Clayton Jeschke (Chicago), Melanie Hanna (Evanston, Ill.) and Kyle Patrick Schmitt (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may determine, based upon edge-computing operations, that a vehicular trip has been initiated and cause one or more sensors to collect vehicle data. One or more trip segments for at least a portion of the vehicular trip may be determined. In some aspects, for each trip segment, a ...