ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,942, issued on May 6, was assigned to Stellantis Auto SAS (Poissy, France).

"Method and device for communication between a vehicle and a public land mobile network" was invented by Sharique Khan (Orsay, France) and Alexandre Fromion (Antony, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and a device for communication between a communication system of a vehicle (10) and a public land mobile network (100). To this end, a first piece of information representative of the current power consumption of the vehicle (10) is received; a second piece of information representative of an amount of electricity available i...