ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,052, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method for fleet management and driver analytics based on driver and scene monitoring and understanding" was invented by Akilesh Rajavenkatanarayanan (Macomb, Mich.), Manoj Kumar Sharma (Troy, Mich.), Jonathon Markowski (Royal Oak, Mich.), Tetyana Wasko (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Kiran Babu (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for fleet management of driver analytics for vehicles. In one embodiment, the disclosed systems include one or more vehicle sensors, one or more transceivers, and one or more processors....