ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,632, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Engine Intellectual Property Co. LLC (Lisle, Ill.).

"Data compression methods for vehicles" was invented by Joshua David Manis (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Paul Charintranond (Palatine, Ill.) and Katie Rasmussen (Bolingbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data compression methods for use with vehicles includes collecting and compressing data on a vehicle, sending the compressed data to a computing device, storing the compressed data, and decompressing the compressed data for real-time review and analysis thereof."

The patent was filed on Jan. 25, 2023, under Application No. 18/101,15...