ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,466, issued on March 4, was assigned to RM ACQUISITION LLC (Chicago).

"System and method for identifying a change in the operator of a vehicle" was invented by Andreas U. Kuehnle (Villa Park, Calif.) and Shaun M. Howard (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying a change in the operator of a vehicle includes a controller configured to determine, during operation of the vehicle by a current operator of the vehicle over a period of time, a plurality of values for at least two variables associated with the current operator. The controller correlates the values for the two variables to form a plurality of dat...