ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,784, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Messaging system with one-to-one communication" was invented by Jeffery Scherrer (Redmond, Wash.), Robert Gibson (Bothell, Wash.), Jason Ward (Buckeye, Ariz.), Sameer Nafdey (Bellvue, Wash.), Matthew Hartmann (Massapequa, N.Y.), Brandon Unkrur (Seattle), Filip Brachkov (St. Charles, Mo.) and Robert Allen (Lake Forest Park, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A messaging system is provided to communicate messages between computing devices. The computing devices can include vehicles and service computers. The messaging system includes nodes and virtual entiti...