ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,653, issued on June 3, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for multi-modal transfer capabilities for smart infrastructure" was invented by Michel Laverne (Pittsburgh) and Ilan Biala (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for receiving, by a smart infrastructure device and from a first vehicle, first information associated with the first vehicle in a first format associated with a first communication protocol. The first information is converted from the first format into an agnostic format. An image, video, or real-time feed of...