ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,951, issued on April 29, was assigned to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP LLC (Oak Brook, Ill.).

"Cloud-enabled vehicle autostart monitoring" was invented by Laura Crawford (Chicago), Garth Wesley Hopkins (Lisle, Ill.), Oddy Khamharn (Lombard, Ill.), Edward James Lukas (Batavia, Ill.), Erich Struckmeyer (Barrington, Ill.) and James Trainor (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus is provided that includes a database configured to store one or more vehicle status parameters of a vehicle and one or more secured space status parameters of a secured space. The apparatus further includes a ...