US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Distribution network using roadside resources and direct vehicle-to-vehicle communication" (California, New Jersey, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,751, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Distribution network using roadside resources and direct vehicle-to-vehicle communication" was invented by Indraneel Mitra (Edgewater, N.J.), Brett Francis (Redwood City, Calif.) and David Joseph Mifsud (Lake Stevens, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle artifact (e.g., software, firmware, content, etc.) distribution system uses direct vehicle-to-vehicle communications to extend a range of physical infrastructure and to improve speed and cost of distributing artifacts to vehicles. An artifact to be distributed is assigned a vehicle-to-vehicle distrib...