ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,591, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Fisker IP/Austria Assets Trust (New York).

"Asymmetric distributed compute nodes for providing software-defined vehicle functions" was invented by Shyam Sundar (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Shirish Kumar Halingali (Bangalore, India) and Bhushan Joshi (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables software-defined functions in a vehicle using asymmetric distributed compute nodes. In a particular example, a system includes one or more higher-performance compute nodes of the asymmetric distributed compute nodes and one or more lower-performance compute nodes of th...