ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,373, issued on April 29, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for transmitting one or more data elements from a vehicle to a server, computer-readable medium, system and vehicle" was invented by Michael Spielmann (Olching, Germany), Carsten Woche (Dachau, Germany), Andrew Mellett (Eching, Germany) and Cornelius Krebs (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting one or more data elements from a vehicle to a server via a communication channel between the vehicle and the server includes the vehicle determining a first event, and transmitting the first event from the vehicle to the server via t...