ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,959, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Synapse Partners LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing vehicle data" was invented by Evangelos Simoudis (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for managing autonomous vehicle data. The method may comprise: (a) collecting said autonomous vehicle data from the autonomous vehicle, wherein the autonomous vehicle data has a size of at least 1 terabyte; (b) processing the autonomous vehicle data to generate metadata corresponding to the autonomous vehicle data, wherein the autonomous vehicle data is stored in a data...