ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,043, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Vehicle software deployment service" was invented by Roland Mesde (Cupertino, Calif.), Michael Kenneth Dosenbach (Renton, Wash.), Alex Bessonov (San Jose, Calif.), David Joseph Mifsud (Lake Stevens, Wash.) and George Sherif Kamal Hanna (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle software deployment management system generates a modifiable deployment plan and one or more associated vehicle software modules that is sent to an edge device at a vehicle activity site. The edge device stores the modifiable deployment plan and the one or more vehicle software...