ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,310, issued on March 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Vehicle application deployment system with pre-determined fallback deployments" was invented by Roland Mesde (Cupertino, Calif.), Alex Bessonov (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Ewanchuk (Redmond, Wash.), George Sherif Kamal Hanna (Toronto) and Paolo Gruenberg Hilario (West Linn, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing vehicle software deployment plans that include one or more fallback deployment plans are disclosed. In some embodiments, a vehicle software deployment system determines a deployment plan for deploying one or more softwa...