ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,490, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CSAA Insurance Services Inc. (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for vehicle navigation" was invented by Jed Crosby (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Beti Cung (San Francisco) and Kelly Lau (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method includes: (a) collecting sensor data from one or more vehicles operating within a geographic region and environmental data for the geographic region; (b) generating an accident risk model using one or more machine learning models; (c) receiving a request for navigating between a first geographic position and a second geographic...