ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,903, issued on May 13, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Wind and transmission delay management for connected vehicles" was invented by Xiaoliang Zhu (Northville, Mich.), Subrata Kumar Kundu (Canton, Mich.) and Paul Liu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a service computing device receives, from a vehicle computing device onboard a vehicle, a communication including sensor data obtained from at least one sensor onboard the vehicle. Based on the communication, the service computing device determines a transmission delay corresponding to a difference between a time when the vehicle sen...