ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,442, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sonatus Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System, method, and apparatus for managing vehicle data collection" was invented by Yu Fang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Thurston Zhu (San Francisco), Andrew Ling (Daly City, Calif.), Yixiang Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robin Reed (Redwood City, Calif.), Sudhir Ramphal Dhankhar (Dublin, Calif.), Xuelin Wang (Pearland, Texas), Jaime Alcantara (Los Altos, Calif.), Felipe Andres Valdes Valenzuela (Mountain View, Calif.), Xuanran Zong (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Rohit Sharma (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a vehicle having a network comprisin...