US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 15 for "Vehicle incident data recovery of distributed vehicle event data" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,086, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Vehicle incident data recovery of distributed vehicle event data" was invented by Tao Liu (Leander, Texas), Xinpeng Liu (Austin, Texas), Xiaoyun Xu (Leander, Texas) and Yang Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for distributing a copy of event data recorder (EDR) data of a vehicle includes sending index information uniquely identifying respective member vehicles of a dynamic vehicle network that include candidate vehicles located within a predetermined geo distance of a host vehicle, sending a fragment...