ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,860, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"In-vehicle synthetic sensor orchestration and remote synthetic sensor service" was invented by Brett Francis (Redwood City, Calif.) and Nicholas Jay Lefler (Canton, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising one or more computers implements a synthetic sensor service configured to deploy synthetic sensors to an in-vehicle computing device implementing a synthetic sensor orchestration environment for a vehicle. The synthetic sensor orchestration environment determines a placement decision for a new synthetic sensor to be added to the vehicle based...