ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,314, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Wireless network access for user terminal device and gateway device in vehicle" was invented by Thomas Castmo (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for providing wireless network access to an external wide area network. A method is performed by a user terminal device. The method includes establishing a wireless connection to a gateway device located in a vehicle. The user terminal device is identified as a client to the gateway device. The user terminal device uses the gateway device as gateway for all data tr...