ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,109, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Acceleration and image based motion detection in vehicles" was invented by Dmytro Likhomanov (Kyiv, Ukraine), Oleh Borovyk (Kyiv, Ukraine), Sergii Savychenko (Kyiv, Ukraine), Bohdan Bobyl (Kyiv, Ukraine), Ihor Morozov (Kyiv, Ukraine), Oksana Shyshka (Kyiv, Ukraine), Sergii Vodopian (Kyiv, Ukraine), Serhii Drozd (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Taras Khalymon (Kyiv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving first data associated with an acceleration of a first device, determining that the acceleration is greater than a first threshold, receiving s...