ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,248, issued on Aug. 5.

"Dashboard camera and associated cloud storage service having integrated file validation" was invented by Russell Earles (Abbeville, La.) and Alex Songe (Lafayette, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for recording, backing up, and authenticating footage from a dash cam or other video device comprises continuously synchronizing checksums from segments of video as they are recorded into rolling storage with an authentication server located remotely. Only metadata is uploaded until the video device experiences an interrupt event, at which point the last few rolling segments, as well as subsequen...