US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on May 20 for "Method and system for collecting evidence following a vehicle incident" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,482, issued on May 20, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and system for collecting evidence following a vehicle incident" was invented by Klas Roland Persson Signell (Gothenburg, Sweden), Egoi Sanchez Basualdo (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Konstantinos Chatziioannou (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for collecting evidence following a vehicle incident. The system is operable for detecting and determining a direction associated with the vehicle incident and automatically and contemporaneously requesting and receiving related information from the vehicle itself, potentially fr...