ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,684, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for recording and managing vehicle-generated data" was invented by Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Wha Pyeong Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment vehicle system includes a telecommunication device that enables communication between a vehicle and a remote server, a first data recorder configured to store, in a first internal storage, a plurality of interaction data indicating timestamped interactions that occur between an autonomous driving system of...