ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,955, issued on May 27, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).
"Distracted driving detection and mitigation" was invented by Elena Carrasco (Coverse, Texas), Will Kerns Maney (San Antonio), David Patrick Dixon (Boerne, Texas) and Subhalakshmi Selvam (Allen, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to detecting distracted driving on a mobile device and mitigating distracted driving by determining whether a mobile device is used by a driver of a vehicle or by a passenger of the vehicle. The system can determine that the mobile device is in a vehicle and modify the function...