ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,041, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Vehicle data stream subscription system" was invented by Roland Mesde (Cupertino, Calif.), Alex Bessonov (San Jose, Calif.), Nitin Giri (Bothell, Wash.), Kyle Daniel Halbach (Berlin, Wash.) and Roie Hodara (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle data streaming service provides a curated catalog of vehicle attributes and allows a vehicle data stream source to register to the vehicle data streaming system and associate its data stream to a vehicle attribute of the attribute catalog. The vehicle data streaming service also allows vehicle data stream des...