ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,829, issued on June 3, was assigned to Nauto Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method for contextualized vehicle operation determination" was invented by Suchitra Sathyanarayana (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ravi Kumar Satzoda (Palo Alto, Calif.), Alex Thompson (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael Gleeson-May (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ludmila Levkova (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining event data including: sampling a first data stream within a first time window at a first sensor of an onboard vehicle system coupled to a vehicle, extracting interior activity data from the first data stream; determining an inter...