US Patent Issued to Sonatus on March 25 for "System, method, and apparatus to execute vehicle communications using a zonal architecture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,747, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sonatus Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System, method, and apparatus to execute vehicle communications using a zonal architecture" was invented by Yu Fang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xuanran Zong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), James Murphy (Alameda, Calif.), Rohit Sharma (San Jose, Calif.) and Jaime Alcantara Portillo (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes a vehicle with a network management controller. The vehicle having a multi-zone network including a plurality of network zones including a zone manager and arranged according to a network topology description. The networ...