ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,994, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Guangdong University of Technology (Guangzhou, China).

"Identity authentication system for distributed Internet of vehicles" was invented by Chang Liu (Guangdong, China), Hongmin Wei (Guangdong, China), Jiacheng Xu (Guangdong, China), Guojun Han (Guangdong, China) and Yi Fang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an identity authentication system for distributed Internet of vehicles (IoV), including a core cloud, a plurality of edge clouds, a plurality of road side units (RSUs) and a plurality of terminal vehicles. The core cloud stores registration information about the...