ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,636, issued on June 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Vehicle data extraction service" was invented by Assimakis Tzamaloukas (San Jose, Calif.), Anis Moussa (Berlin) and Jeffrey Dean Singer (Everett, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising one or more computing devices implements a vehicle information extraction service. The vehicle information extraction service enables customers to provide access to proprietary encoding protocols used by the customers to communicate over a bus of a vehicle, wherein the proprietary protocols are used by the vehicle information extraction service to perform veh...