ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,926, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).

"Method for building an ad hoc virtual network and system" was invented by Christian Bruns (Braunschweig, Germany), Jakob Spiegelberg (Braunschweig, Germany), Jan Sonnenberg (Didderse, Germany), Bernd Lehmann (Wolfsburg, Germany), Laura Fieback (Leipzig, Germany), Marius Spika (Braunschweig, Germany), Tatjana Kruscha (Braunschweig, Germany), Fabian Galetzka (Wolfsburg, Germany), Benjamin GroB (Braunschweig, Germany), Jan Kempa (Wolfsburg, Germany), Christoph Konig (Hannover, Germany) and Marvin Schroder (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ...