ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,897, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus for enabling an on-board function for a vehicle" was invented by Mingchao Li (Beijing), Hang Liu (Beijing) and Zheng Zhou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a communication method and an apparatus, applied to an internet of vehicles, for example, V2X, LTE-V, and V2V. An in-vehicle apparatus triggers an on-board function for a first vehicle. The first vehicle carries the in-vehicle apparatus. The in-vehicle apparatus checks whether the first vehicle is allowed...