US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on April 22 for "Vehicle communication method and apparatus based on ETC system, medium, and electronic device" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,132, issued on April 22, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Vehicle communication method and apparatus based on ETC system, medium, and electronic device" was invented by Yixue Lei (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provide a vehicle communication method performed by an electronic toll collection (ETC) system. The ETC system includes an ETC roadside unit (RSU) and an ETC onboard unit (OBU), and the vehicle communication method includes: establishing, when an ETC OBU of any vehicle is detected, a connection between the ETC OBU and the ETC RSU; performing ETC billing on the vehi...