ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,608, issued on May 12, was assigned to Futaijing Precision Electronics (Yantai) Co. Ltd. (Yantai, China) and HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Vehicle communication method, system and central gateway" was invented by Chih-Chieh Sun (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chi-Sen Hsiao (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Jhen Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for vehicle communication applied to a central gateway of a vehicle communication system. The method comprises: receiving zone information from a source zone controller of the plurality of zone controllers based on a time-sensitive network protocol, a...