ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,688, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Platooning of communication devices" was invented by Yifei Jin (Solna, Sweden), Vijaya Parampalli Yajnanarayana (Bangalore, India), Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan (Stockholm), Rafia Inam (Vasteras, Sweden) and Alexandros Nikou (Danderyd, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, in a first network function, for providing one or more platoon recommendations for platooning of a plurality of communication devices the method comprising: obtaining mobility information for the plurality of communication devices; determining, based on the mobility info...