ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,885, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Motion Applied Ltd. (Woking, Great Britain).

"Network connection control" was invented by Sohail Arshad (Woking, Great Britain) and Daniel Steer (Woking, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for controlling the connection of antenna units to a wireless local area network. The wireless local area network comprises one or more antenna units being implemented on a vehicle. The method comprises: obtaining one or more characteristics about a further antenna unit that is external to the network; comparing the one or more characteristics about the further antenna unit wit...