ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,961, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Vehicle control using serverless functions" was invented by Andrea Cosentino (Milan) and Paolo Antinori (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cloud-based vehicle control are generally described. In some examples, first vehicle identifier data identifying a first vehicle may be received. In some cases, first state data representing a first software version of a first system associated with the first vehicle identifier data may be received. In some examples, a first condition associated with the first system may be determined based at least i...