ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,359, issued on March 4, was assigned to NURO INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for improving vehicle communication network bandwidth" was invented by Yin Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, bandwidth associated with a vehicle communication network, such as a controller area network (CAN), is allocated by assigning priorities to systems in an autonomous vehicle which use the vehicle communication network to communicate with a vehicle control unit (VCU). Systems with high priority levels may exchange data or information with a VCU at substantially all times, while systems...