US Patent Issued to Sonatus on Feb. 18 for "System, method, and apparatus for managing vehicle data collection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,071, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Sonatus Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System, method, and apparatus for managing vehicle data collection" was invented by Yu Fang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yixiang Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robin Reed (Redwood City, Calif.) and Thurston Zhu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus that includes a parameter acquisition circuit, a property translation circuit, and a parameter conditioning circuit. The parameter acquisition circuit interprets a vehicle parameter value. The property translation circuit interprets a property request value, the property request value defining, at least in p...