ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,656, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).
"Wireless communications for vehicle collision response" was invented by Yu Zhou (Somerset, N.J.) and Rittwik Jana (Montville, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards wireless communications for vehicle collision response. Devices onboard vehicles can wirelessly exchange information in response to detecting a collision. Public encryption keys can be exchanged, and exchanged information can optionally be encrypted using a received public encryption key. Exchanged information can include vehicle identifi...