ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,756, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Driver scoring system and method with driving event context normalization using road quality information" was invented by Sean J. Lawrence (Bangalore Ka, India), Subramanian C (Bangalore, India), Rajeev Rajasekharan (Bangalore, India) and Balachandar Santhanam (Bangalore Ka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed to determine driver scoring that consider road quality and/or conditions in driver score computations. In contrast to the conventional approaches, the use of road conditions and/or road quality in the computation of driver scor...