ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,813, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Configuration of optical sensor devices in vehicles based on thermal data" was invented by Justin Joel Delegard (West Chester, Ohio), Kavya Joshi (San Francisco), Abhinav Acharya (Pacifica, Calif.), John Charles Bicket (Burlingame, Calif.), Mathew Chasan (Sacramento, Calif.), Sabrina Quinn Shemet (Felton, Calif.) and Kevin Lloyd (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for configuration of optical sensor devices in vehicles based on thermal data. To manage the temperature of an op...