ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,089, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Enhanced vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications using a satellite/airborne interface" was invented by Frank F Liang (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and apparatus for mobile communications including sidelink transmissions is provided. A user equipment (UE) maintains a first interface between the first UE and a radio access network (RAN) infrastructure node, a second interface between the first UE and a second UE and a third interface between the first UE and a satellite node or an airborne node. The UE switches between int...