US Patent Issued to Sonatus on Jan. 28 for "System, method, and apparatus for managing vehicle data collection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,324, issued on Jan. 28, 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.), Thurston Zhu (San Francisco) and Sudhir Ramphal Dhankhar (Dublin, Calif.).

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