ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,181, issued on April 29, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Vehicle gateway device and interactive graphical user interfaces associated therewith" was invented by Alexander Stevenson (London), Wendy Greenberg (Atlanta), Josephine Nord (Atlanta), Matvey Zagaynov (London), Jennifer Leung (Berkeley, Calif.), Andrew Robbins (San Francisco), Michael Ross (San Mateo, Calif.), Aaron Szerlip (Atlanta) and Rushil Goel (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives vehicle metric data from a gateway device connected to a vehicle. The vehicle gateway device gathers data related to operation of the vehicle and/or loca...