ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,965, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Anonymous data collection for vehicle sensor data" was invented by Amiya Trivedi (Cupertino, Calif.), Alok Kumar Sinha (Fremont, Calif.) and Raj Umashankar Gupta (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described systems and techniques enable anonymous collection of sensor data related to vehicle driving events of a vehicle. A start event of the vehicle may be detected, and an anonymous name may be generated, based on the start event. A subset of the sensor data related to a start-specific event of the vehicle may be extracted. The subset of the sensor dat...