ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,239, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.) and University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"One-shot transmission for V2X messaging" was invented by Jayanthi Rao (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Ivan Vukovic (Birmingham, Mich.), Yaser Pourmohammadi Fallah (Orlando, Fla.), MD Saifuddin (Orlando, Fla.) and Mahdi Zaman (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sequence of connected messages is transmitted using Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) of a predefined period. A random value for a 1-shot duration timer is set, the random value being chosen as being between a m...