ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,323, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Vehicle data jurisdiction management" was invented by Roland Mesde (Cupertino, Calif.), Alex Bessonov (San Jose, Calif.), Kyle Daniel Halbach (Berlin), Nitin Giri (Bothell, Wash.), Edwin Ricardo Mendez Rodriguez (Seattle) and Matthew Jonathan Narksusook (Auburn, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle data management system and data jurisdiction system manage vehicle data between multiple jurisdictions and enables a set of jurisdiction rules involving rules of various jurisdictions to be applied consistently. The vehicle data jurisdiction system can det...