ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,270, issued on March 18, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Vehicular mobility management for IP-based vehicular networks" was invented by Jaehoon Jeong (Busan, South Korea), Yiwen Shen (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Zhong Xiang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for performing a handoff by a vehicle in an IP-based vehicular network, the method including: transmitting a first router solicitation (RS) message to a first road-side unit (RSU) to access the vehicular network, the first RS message including mobility info...