ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,329, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Synchronous in-vehicle communication" was invented by Riccardo Giraldi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing shared communication are discussed herein. A system can receive, at a server and from a first vehicle, a sharing request including a seating location of a first user in a first vehicle, an identity of a second user in a second vehicle, and content data. The system can transmit the sharing request to the second vehicle and receive data indicative an acceptance of the sharing request from the second vehicle. The system can ...