ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,420, issued on March 4, was assigned to COX COMMUNICATIONS INC..

"Geographically-converged telemetry system" was invented by Keith Alan Rothschild (Dunwoody, Ga.), Dipan Patel (Atlanta), Ron Lev (Atlanta) and Steve Malenfant (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A geo-converged telemetry (GCT) system is described that provides an exchange of geographically-relevant telemetry data amongst various vehicles, devices, and systems for providing a holistic view of a geographic area. Telemetry data from various sources may be continually collected and transmitted to a nearby node of a GCT system, where the data may be converged based...