US Patent Issued to QUANATA on July 15 for "Systems and methods for determining a vehicle driver based on mobile device usage during high attention driving events" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,769, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUANATA LLC (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for determining a vehicle driver based on mobile device usage during high attention driving events" was invented by Kenneth Jason Sanchez (San Francisco), Blake Konrardy (Chicago) and Fang Fang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for determining whether a user of a mobile device is a driver of a vehicle. For example, the method includes receiving telematics data and device interaction data collected by the mobile device during vehicle trip segments, analyzing the telematics data to determine first driving events of...