ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,643, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Leader selection in V2X group management" was invented by Lan Yu (Beijing), Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.), Gene Wesley Marsh (San Diego) and Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein provide for leader selection of a group of vehicles, based on inter-vehicle communications. According to embodiments, a host vehicle can determine it qualifies to be the leader of a potential group by comparing vehicle information of other cars in the potential group with its own vehicle information. Once the determination has been mad...