ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,601, issued on July 7, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Adaptive data collection in vehicles for enhanced privacy and data security" was invented by Ehsan Yasari (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Andras Balint (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for adapting data collection in vehicles for enhanced security and privacy are provided. A computer-implemented method, performed by a data processing device of a vehicle, comprises A computer-implemented method performed by a data processing device of a vehicle, comprises determining whether a context of the vehicle corresponds to a security restricted c...