ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,116, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Autonomous management of wireless connectivity of priority response vehicles" was invented by Jean de Dieu Mutangana (Detroit), Mohsen Bahrami (Birmingham, Mich.), Hamed Asadi (Troy, Mich.) and James Wilhelm Heaton (Saline, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous management of wireless connectivity of priority response vehicles is provided. It is received, from a communications network including a plurality of access points, the access points configured to provide communications services to priority vehicles and non-priority vehicles, loc...