ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,383, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Dynamic autonomous vehicle modem orchestration" was invented by Ahmed Elhadeedy (Pittsburgh), Syed Tirmizi (Mars, Pa.), Sim Wonseon (Pittsburgh) and William Lu (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for dynamic orchestration of modems in an autonomous vehicle, which can include an SoC determining performance parameters from a plurality of modems and controlling communication of data between ECUs and the modems. Some methods described also include an SoC acting as a forwarding daemon, communicating with a switch, and or providing configu...