ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,223, issued on July 1, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Regulating communication between a vehicle and a user device" was invented by Fai Yeung (Palo Alto, Calif.), Leonid Kokhnovych (Burnaby, Canada), Zhenxiang Kui (Langley, Canada), Wei Kuai (Surrey, Canada), Paul Rolfe (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Raymond Chan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for initiating first instructions to establish a communication session between a user device and a vehicle, wherein the first instructions include a wait time interval and the communication session is associated with a...