ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,737, issued on April 22, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Remote vehicle immobilizer" was invented by Michael Luis Innocenzi (San Francisco), Elias Ray Dykaar (San Francisco), Maxwell Anton Dergosits (San Francisco) and Ingo Gerhard Wiegand (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for a remote vehicle immobilizer. A network gateway device receives a command from a remote computing device to modify a configuration of an electronic switch from a first configuration to a second configuration. The electronic switch is positioned in a conducting path between a ...