ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,892, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for identifying missing vehicles and people utilizing vehicle's onboard camera images and data" was invented by Toshiro Ozawa (Irvine, Calif.), Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for using data collected by vehicles to complete tasks. For example, a service provider may receive a request for information related to a missing vehicle. The request may also include characteristics (e.g., license plate number, make, model, color, ...