ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,741, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Arity International Ltd. (Ireland).
"Automatic crash detection" was invented by Kyle Patrick Schmitt (Chicago), Pratheek M. Harish (Ontario, Canada), Venu Madhav Tammali (Chicago), Larry Layne (Northbrook, Ill.) and Dana Ferguson (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for determining whether or not a crash involving a vehicle has occurred. A computing device may receive acceleration measurement(s) measured by one or more accelerometers during a time window. The computing device may determine, for one or more acceleration measurements, a corresponding accelerat...