ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,272, issued on Aug. 4.

"Real-time selection of data to collect in autonomous vehicle" was invented by Junichi Sato (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for an autonomous vehicle includes: controlling at least one system of the vehicle by a host system; monitoring, by a memory device, data associated with operation of the vehicle; determining, by the memory device based on the monitoring, first data to collect from the vehicle; collecting, by the memory device independently of the host system, the first data; and storing, by the memory device, the collected first data in a non-volatile memory."

The patent was filed...