ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,042, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Method and system for accident detection using contextual data" was invented by Brad Cordova (Cambridge, Mass.), Rafi Finegold (Sharon, Mass.), Dan Shiebler (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Eddie Vaisman (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for reporting accident data includes: a mobile device having a plurality of sensors; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to perform operations including: operating the plurality of sensors to collect driving data; receiving the driving data collected over a...