US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Sept. 16 for "Adaptation(s) based on correlating hazardous vehicle events with application feature(s)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,162, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Adaptation(s) based on correlating hazardous vehicle events with application feature(s)" was invented by Effie Goenawan (San Francisco), Austin Chang (San Francisco), James Stephen Higgins (San Jose, Calif.) and David Black (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for detecting hazardous vehicle events and encouraging usage of driving optimized application features to mitigate occurrence of the hazardous vehicle events. The driving optimized application features can address unsafe driving events that are determined to be ...