ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,416, issued on July 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Vehicle fleet information service" was invented by Michael Christopher Wenneman (Seattle), Christophe Charpentier (Seattle), Marco Argenti (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Kunal Bhasin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle information service implemented on one or more computers of a service provider network implements a first application programmatic interface (API) that allows a client to define inclusion parameters and a sample size for a fleet of vehicles from which vehicle data is to be collected. The vehicle information service also implement...