ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,462, issued on April 29.

"Re-identification and revocation for misbehaving vehicle detection" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, Calif.), Baik Hoh (Mountain View, Calif.), Onur Altintas (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes embodiments re-identification and revocation for misbehaving vehicle detection. A misbehaving vehicle is an example of an anomaly. A method includes receiving from a vehicular micro cloud, by a connected vehicle that is a member of the vehicular micro cloud, vehicular micro cloud dat...