US Patent Issued to Sonatus on Sept. 16 for "System, method, and apparatus for managing vehicle data collection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,479, issued on Sept. 16, 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) and Sudhir Ramphal Dhankhar (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for managing vehicle data collection that includes a controller. The controller includes: an automation definition circuit structured to implement an automation user interface, and to interpret an automation request in response to user communications with the automation user interface; an automation management circuit structured to ...