ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,724, issued on March 17, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Wireless time pulse distribution for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Joseph Brassard (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for an autonomous vehicle (AV) to select a mobile network. An example method can include establishing a connection between the AV and a mobile device associated with a passenger of the AV; identifying, using the connection, a first mobile network associated with the mobile device; determining that the first mobile network associated with the mobile device is different than a seco...