ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,306, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).
"Methods for characterizing a vehicle collision" was invented by Willem Petersen (Elmira, Canada), Harjot Singh Parmar (Waterloo, Canada), Amish Vijay Patel (Mississauga, Canada), Meghan Frances Fotak (Mississauga, Canada), Paul Stobbe (Munich) and Robert Spencer Hockin (Milton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are examples of a computerized method that comprises: in response to obtaining information regarding a potential collision between a vehicle and an object, obtaining data describing the vehicle for a time period extending before and a...