ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,461, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Intelligent connectivity for vehicles" was invented by Brett Francis (Redwood City, Calif.), Nicholas Jay Lefler (Canton, Ga.), David Joseph Mifsud (Lake Stevens, Wash.) and Michael Garcia (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connectivity monitor of a vehicle determines current and/or future states of antennas. A workload monitor of the vehicle receives execution criteria for different workloads to be executed. An intelligent connectivity engine at the vehicle receives the current and/or future states of the antennas and the execution criteria for the re...