ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,494, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle and remote computer communication" was invented by Yifei Li (Shanghai), Heng Fan (Shanghai) and Kunpeng Gao (Songjiang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Upon transmitting respective messages to a remote computer communicatively coupled to a computer via a network, respective first timestamps are generated. Upon receiving, from the remote computer, respective second timestamps at which the remote computer received the respective messages via the network, a best fit line is determined based on respective first timesteps between the resp...