ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,296, issued on April 7, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).
"Communicating vehicle signal information using extended identifiers" was invented by Pierre Pierre Blais (Kanata, Canada) and Geordon Thomas Ferguson (Mississauga, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software can be used to communicates vehicle signals. In some aspects, one example method includes: receiving, at a server, a query for a vehicle signal; and transmitting, from the server, a response message comprising an identifier of the vehicle signal, wherein the identifier comprises a representation of a name of the vehicle signal an...