ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,657, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Thermal mitigation enhancement" was invented by Mohammed Ataur Rahman Shuman (San Diego), Soumya Das (San Diego), Sivaramakrishna Veerepalli (San Diego) and Sean Vincent Maschue (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for performing thermal mitigation for one or more devices. For instance, a temperature, humidity, amount of light, and/or other characteristic or factor associated with a vehicle can be obtained. Whether to transition one or more communication functions from the vehicle to a user device can be determined based on the t...