US Patent Issued to Cambridge Mobile Telematics, Discovery on April 22 for "System and method for obtaining vehicle telematics data" (American, South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,470, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Discovery Ltd. (Sandton, South Africa).

"System and method for obtaining vehicle telematics data" was invented by Hari Balakrishnan (Belmont, Mass.), Lewis David Girod (Arlington, Mass.) and Ilan Ossin (Johannesburg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor tag which in use will be affixed to a vehicle for obtaining vehicle telematics data includes a battery for powering the tag and a processor running executable code to process accelerometer data. An accelerometer measures the acceleration of the tag and thereby of the vehicle, and also con...