ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,864, issued on March 24, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Methods and devices for operating vehicles using decentralized communication" was invented by Jan Behling (Dortmund, Germany), Mathias Rotgeri (Dortmund, Germany), Jan Soren Emmerich (Dortmund, Germany), Dirk Honing (Dortmund, Germany), Patrick Klokowski (Dortmund, Germany) and Christian Hammermeister (Dortmund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a communication interface for providing wireless decentralized communication in a wireless communication environment, a driver for moving the vehic...