ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,018, issued on May 6, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Allocation of radio resources for vehicular communication" was invented by Prateek Basu Mallick (Hessen, Germany), Joachim Loehr (Hessen, Germany), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Lilei Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an improved radio resource allocation performed by a vehicular mobile terminal. The vehicular mobile terminal determines whether to determine radio resources based on the location of the vehicular mobile terminal or not, based on information received from an entit...