US Patent Issued to Swiss Reinsurance on May 27 for "Automated system for detecting phone distraction events and method thereof" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,803, issued on May 27, was assigned to Swiss Reinsurance Co. Ltd. (Zurich).

"Automated system for detecting phone distraction events and method thereof" was invented by Riccardo Tisseur (Aramengo, Italy) and Matteo Maffetti (Trento, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated system, phone distraction detector and method for automatically detecting phone distraction events in a moving vehicle, caused by a driver of the moving vehicle by using a smartphone. An Internet of Things (IoT) server is communicatively coupled to the smartphone. The smartphone (comprises one or more sensors built into the smartphone, wherein sensory data...