ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,511, issued on April 15, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Method of selecting a route for recording vehicle" was invented by Michael Arnold (Dusseldorf, Germany), Sonke Behrends (Dusseldorf, Germany), Peet Cremer (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Dennis Mueller (Moers, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are aspects of a method, carried out by a vehicle data recording device, that includes downloading, from a host data collecting system, a recording target and determining a plurality of possible routes for the vehicle. The method also includes, for each route, generating a route encoding in nume...