ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,260, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Drive recorder operation system" was invented by Norio Atsumo (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive recorder operation system includes: a sensor unit configured to send index information containing information about an event which occurred in a vehicle; a drive recorder configured to generate a video file by capturing a video of surrounding of the vehicle, and store the video file in a memory medium; and a linking device configured to link the event to the stored video file based on the index information sent from the sensor unit, wherein t...