ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,151, issued on March 18, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for determining reliability of received data" was invented by Stefan Bergquist (Gothenburg, Sweden), Wilhelm Wiberg (Askim, Sweden) and Antonio Amaral Craveiro (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method for determining a reliability level of data received by an ego vehicle from a target vehicle being different from the ego vehicle. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding control system and to a computer program product."

The patent was filed on Oct. 21, 2019,...