ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,229, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Autonomous vehicle DoS resistant communication system using acoustic communications" was invented by Joseph Soryal (Glendale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining, by a vehicle, a failure with a computer or telecommunications system operating in the vehicle and when a failure is detected, activating an acoustic system on the vehicle, detecting a vibration by the vehicle; and transmitting an audible signal responsive to the detecting step. The audible signal may include words in a human vocabulary."

The patent was filed on O...