ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,274, issued on March 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Vehicle signal relay service" was invented by Roland Mesde (Cupertino, Calif.), Alex Bessonov (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Ewanchuk (Redmond, Wash.), George Sherif Kamal Hanna (Toronto) and Nitin Giri (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle signal relay system enables a relay agent in a first zone of a vehicle to send sensor signals having a first link-layer communication protocol to a software application deployed on a compute unit in another zone of the vehicle that is connected using another link-layer communication protocol. The vehicle s...