ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,168, issued on July 1, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for dashcam installation" was invented by Jing Wang (Toronto), William Evan Welbourne (Seattle), Sharan Srinivasan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shirish Raghav Nair (Shoreline, Wash.), Faraz Abbasi (San Francisco), Margaret Finch (Austin, Texas) and Ingo Wiegand (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to systems and methods of dashcam installation for providing instructions on placing a dashcam for a person or dashcam installer. Aspects of the present disclosure are related to providing a digital assistant for insta...