ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,304, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Context aware involving mobile phone with vehicle to enhance vehicle to vehicle communication network strength" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India), Sudhanshu Sekher Sar (Bangalore, India) and Satyam Jakkula (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising establishing a local communication network among and between a plurality of onboard vehicle computers respectively located in a plurality of vehicles, polling the vicinity of each vehicle to determine a set of qual...