ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,869, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Credit Karma LLC (Oakland, Calif.).

"System and method for vehicle sensing and analysis" was invented by Jonathan Matus (San Francisco) and Pankaj Risbood (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring vehicle motion using a mobile device associated with a user including collecting activity data at a mobile device associated with the user; determining a user activity state based on the activity data; determining motion data collection parameters associated with an operating state of the mobile device, based on the user activity state; and collecting motion data at the mob...