US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Resource sharing between vehicles" (New York, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,720, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Resource sharing between vehicles" was invented by Indraneel Mitra (Edgewater, N.J.), Michael Garcia (New York) and Brett Francis (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle resource management system provides vehicles with vehicle agents that enable sharing of resources, via peer-to-peer connections between vehicles or other resource providers and resource consumers. For example, a first vehicle may be allocated computing capacity, storage capacity, or networking capacity of a second vehicle for use by the first vehicle over an ephemeral ...