ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,001, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Lane departure monitoring" was invented by Akshay Raj Dhamija (Campbell, Calif.), Abner Ayala Acevedo (Clarksville, Tenn.), Rohit Annigeri (Santa Clara, Calif.), Cole Jurden (Kansas City, Mo.), Douglas Boyle (Verdi, Nev.), Jason Liu (Christiansburg, Va.), Kevin Lai (Redmond, Wash.), Jose Cazarin (Calgary, Canada), Pang Wu (San Francisco), William Nathan Hurst (Seattle), Brian Westphal (Livermore, Calif.), Lucas Doyle (San Francisco), Saurabh Tripathi (San Jose, Calif.) and Shirish Nair (Shoreline, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer...