ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,584, issued on July 8, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Manual route start" was invented by Xin Chen (New York), Eric Shreve (Calistoga, Calif.), Tirso Peguero (San Francisco), Sean McGee (San Francisco), Hendrika Makilya (El Cerrito, Calif.), Matthew Morales (Ventura, Calif.) and Emily White (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for manually starting routes. A route management system provides for accessing a route tracking report associated with a vehicle to identify a plurality of routes associated with the vehicle; generating, for displ...