US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on April 15 for "Scaled vehicle communications architecture system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,866, issued on April 15, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Scaled vehicle communications architecture system" was invented by Sitaram Emani (Novi, Mich.), Venkata Naga Siva Vikas Vemuri (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Scott T. Droste (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Andrew J. MacDonald (Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.), Chenna Kesava R. Sankepalle (Northville, Mich.) and Brian Rennells (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of prioritizing updates to vehicles includes receiving one or more update requests for a first vehicle; determining a receiving capacity of the first vehicle; checking status of a battery ...