ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,160, issued on May 27, was assigned to ASPEN NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Predictive flow switching and application continuity in connected vehicle networks" was invented by Sajit Bhaskaran (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and John Tong-Kin Yu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject disclosure relates to ways to ensure vehicle network connectivity. In some aspects, a process of the technology includes steps for receiving local network measurement data including one or more connectivity metrics for at least one network provider (e.g., an ISP), and updating a geo-connectivity database using the received local network ...