ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,731, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hands-free deployment of geographically linked applications" was invented by Dario Nicolas Oliver (Hillsboro, Ore.), Marcos E. Carranza (Portland, Ore.), Cesar Martinez-Spessot (Hillsboro, Ore.), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Mateo Guzman (Beaverton, Ore.), Sindhu Pandian (Hillsboro, Ore.), Ignacio Javier Alvarez Martinez (Portland, Ore.) and Mats Gustav Agerstam (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for hands-free deployment of geographically linked applications are described herein. A radio transceiver of a vehicle ma...