ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,498, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"System and method for providing useful information following an impact event" was invented by Jason Meyer Quint (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided to generate instructions and share video content following an impact event. They include detecting an impact event associated with a vehicle and transmitting a request to at least one video recording device within an area of interest from the vehicle. They further include receiving video content captured within a time period around the impact event from at least o...