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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2024
Applicant:
Samuel J Petuchowski, Brookline, MA (US);
Inventor:
Samuel J Petuchowski, Brookline, MA (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 40/09 (2012.01); G01S 19/47 (2010.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 40/09 (2013.01); G01S 19/47 (2013.01); G07C 5/00 (2013.01); B60W 2050/143 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for identifying manual use of a phone by the driver of a vehicle. The system has a smartphone with a memory programmed to collect heading, velocity and radial acceleration data already available to the operating system of all smartphones and uses the asymmetry with respect to right and left turns between a radial acceleration based on Earth-frame-based heading and speed data and a measured actual radial acceleration to detect manual phone usage by a driver. Detection may result in a visual and auditory warning that would incriminate the driver if the vehicle were to be stopped by law enforcement authorities or involved in an accident.