ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,419, issued on April 15, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Transportation mode for a vehicle telematics device" was invented by Thomas Arthur Walli (Hamilton, Canada) and James Patrick Howell (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of enabling a transportation mode on a telematics device couplable to a vehicle are provided. A method includes detecting a first event or receiving a command for enabling a transportation mode, running a transportation mode power-saving scheme in response to receiving the first event or the command, and exiting the transportation mode power-saving scheme in response to de...