ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,253, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Data classification for vehicle network logger system" was invented by Narayanan Krishnan (San Francisco), Moshe Oron (San Rafael, Calif.), Nathan Falk (San Francisco), Adrian Caceres (Belmont, Calif.) and Manuel Birke (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle network logging system (VNLS) is described and includes a logger for storing data associated with events, wherein for each of the events, the associated data is created when a trigger associated with the event is received at the VNLS; and a compute node for, for each of the events...