US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Systems on July 1 for "Battery management for c-V2X (cellular vehicle-to-everything)" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,176, issued on July 1, was assigned to Continental Automotive Systems Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Battery management for c-V2X (cellular vehicle-to-everything)" was invented by Yu Zhu (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Tom Oberhauser (Algonquin, Ill.) and Janakiram Sistla (Schaumburg, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a parked automotive vehicle is located at a hazard location, both a Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) modem of the parked automotive vehicle and a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) engine of the parked automotive vehicle are left on to increase safety, relative to turning the C-V2X modem off, by having the C-V2X ...