ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,261, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Systems and methods for estimating driver efficiency" was invented by Stefano Peduzzi (Varzo, Italy), Johannes Hoh (Aachen, Germany) and Giuseppe Fidelibus (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for estimating driver efficiency. For example, one such method may comprise operating at least one processor to: receive telematics data originating from a plurality of telematics devices installed in a plurality of vehicles; identify, using the telematics data, a trip completed by at least one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles...