ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,473, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Handoff sequence for city nodes" was invented by Imad Zahid (Carrollton, Texas), Sumit K. Jha (Frisco, Texas), Anil Nagpal (Plano, Texas), Joshua C. Batie (Frisco, Texas) and Nikhil Rajendra (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation establishes a communication link between a first vehicle and a computing node. The system then identifies the data to be transmitted from the computing node to the first vehicle, considering that a portion of this data is already stored on a second vehicle. ...