ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,046, issued on May 13, was assigned to RM ACQUISITION LLC (Chicago).

"Post-work-shift driver to vehicle event association for controlling vehicle functions based on monitored driver performance" was invented by Andreas U. Kuehnle (Villa Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of a plurality of on-vehicle event detection systems generate vehicle event datasets characterizing detected vehicle events, while each of one or more off-vehicle driver log-in/log-out devices generate at least one of: a driver log-in event dataset characterizing a detected driver log-in event, and a driver log-out event dataset characterizing a detecte...