ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,490, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Vehicle application deployment system with optimized placement" 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 of determining and providing optimized deployment plans for deploying software to vehicles are disclosed. In some embodiments, a vehicle software deployment system evaluates one or more cost functions to determine relative costs of different deploymen...