ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,785, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).
"Systems and methods for detecting vehicle collisions" was invented by Gregory Gordon Douglas Hines (Mississauga, Canada) and Benjamin John Gordon Gaffney (Wellesley, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting vehicle collisions are provided. The methods involve operating at least one processor to: receive telematics data originating from a telematics device installed in a vehicle, the telematics data including acceleration data; detect a putative collision event based on the acceleration data exceeding a predetermined acceleration th...