ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,067, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle communication" was invented by Hassnaa Moustafa (Portland, Ore.), Bahareh Sadeghi (Portland, Ore.), Shengbo Xu (Newark, Calif.), Tolga Acikalin (San Jose, Calif.), Javier Perez-Ramirez (North Plains, Ore.) and Richard D. Roberts (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter described herein presents various technical solutions for the technical problems facing autonomous vehicles (e.g., fully autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles). To address technical problems facing wireless communication cost and...