ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,263, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"In-vehicle imaging device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program" was invented by Tomohiro Matsuoka (Yokohama, Japan), Fumihiko Yokoyama (Yokohama, Japan), Takeshi Kuchinomachi (Yokohama, Japan), Yasuo Sugita (Yokohama, Japan), Yoshiharu Koji (Yokohama, Japan) and Manabu Karasawa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle imaging device includes an impact detecting unit configured to detect an impact on a vehicle, a connection processing unit configured to connect to a first phone contact when the impact dete...