ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,943, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to RM ACQUISITION LLC (Boise, Idaho).

"System and method for insight-triggered opportunistic imaging in a vehicle" was invented by Andreas U. Kuehnle (Villa Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for insight-triggered opportunistic imaging in a vehicle are provided. In one embodiment, a plurality of images are captured opportunistically using an image capture device in a vehicle. A compressive sensing sampling technique is used to store a subset of image pixels of at least some of the plurality of images. A retention filter is applied to the plurality of images to select a...