ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,441, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Vehicle information service for on-vehicle applications" was invented by Roger Prenger (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Gregory Jay (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle information service for monitoring vehicle data from a vehicle data bus and providing a secure interface to allow devices on the vehicle to retrieve vehicle data for which they have authorization is described. The vehicle information service may organize the vehicle data into one more collections of vehicle data, where different collections may be authorized for different application authentic...