ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,101, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for cloud coordinated vehicle data collection" was invented by Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Markus Jochim (Troy, Mich.), Douglas C. Martin (Goodrich, Mich.), Mahesh Pottelu (Shelby Township, Mich.) and Ahmad El Baba (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for cloud coordinated vehicle data collection includes an onboard vehicle data management subsystem and a remotely-located back-office subsystem. Each subsystem includes one or more control modules having a processor, a memory, and input/output (I/O) ports. The c...