ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,128, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Electronic device for monitoring vehicle environments" was invented by Jennifer Lin (San Francisco), Christian Almer (San Francisco), Somasundara Pandian (San Francisco), Wael Barakat (San Francisco), Nathan Heinrich (San Francisco) and David Gal (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is described to monitor a temperature of an ambient environment. The electronic device comprises an enclosure that defines an internal volume and a plurality of external surfaces. The enclosure comprises a thermal member exposed to the ambient environment ...