ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,850, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd. (Jerusalem).

"Safety and critical information logging mechanism for vehicles" was invented by Qianying Zhu (Beijing), Lidan Zhang (Beijing), Xiangbin Wu (Beijing), Xinxin Zhang (Beijing) and Fei Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of methods, systems, and use cases for safety logging in a vehicle are described. In an example, an approach for data logging in a vehicle includes use of logging triggers, public and private data buckets, and defined data formats, for data provided during autonomous vehicle operation. Data logging operations m...