ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,299, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Australian Mitigation Engineering Developments Pty Ltd (Queensland, Australia).

"System for installing, operating and configuring aftermarket vehicle safety systems" was invented by Peter Woodford (Queensland, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for installing, operating and configuring aftermarket vehicle monitoring devices in a vehicle. The system includes a controller having connection interfaces corresponding to data communication protocols for connecting to one or more vehicle monitoring devices of a vehicle. A memory stores instructions to process inputs received from the ve...