ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,911, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Accessing vehicles by edge collaboration" was invented by Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for establishing access to vehicles is provided. The embodiment may include identifying at least two devices, including a requesting device and a target device. The embodiment may also include identifying one or more networks, including at least one alternative...