ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,425, issued on April 8, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).
"Location-based auto-immobilization" was invented by Oleksandr Zhevzhyk (London), James Michael Rowson (Tarrytown, N.Y.) and Nicholas Lee Grauman (Maple Grove, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are presented for enabling vehicle immobilization based on location. One method includes providing a user interface to configure immobilization settings. The vehicle is configured for threat detection, and a data structure is created to define locations where immobilization is enabled. A Behavioral Monitoring System (BMS) prepares and sends a hierarchical map s...