ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,734, issued on June 30, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Data collection policy management for vehicle sensor data" was invented by Amiya Trivedi (Cupertino, Calif.), Raj Umashankar Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Alok Kumar Sinha (Fremont, Calif.) and Venkatesh Lakshmikanthan (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A policy file may be received at a vehicle outfitted with a plurality of sensors, the policy file governing a policy for capturing and uploading sensor data from at least one of the plurality of sensors characterizing a driving event of the vehicle. An over the air (OTA) update of a policy manager installed...