ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,220, issued on May 6, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for collection and analysis of vehicular data" was invented by Janean Ellen Potter (Northville, Mich.), Erika L Pruski (Brighton, Mich.) and Rafat F Hattar (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for vehicular data collection and analysis. The system may include a vehicle and a remote computing system. The vehicle may include a sensor system, a communication system, a controller configured to: receive vehicle data including sensor data that includes an observable condition of the vehicle ...