ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,392, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HOSEO UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

"Data forwarding method and system in VNDN environment including autonomous vehicles" was invented by Huhnkuk Lim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing pull-based data forwarding in a vehicular named data networking (VNDN) environment including autonomous vehicles includes generating or receiving a data packet the autonomous vehicle or road side unit, classifying the data packet into critical, non-critical, and entertainment according to a class attribute included in the data...