ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,602, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scalable software-defined vehicle platform management and functions" was invented by Donald Raymond Gignac (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Maria Soledad Elli (Seattle), Rebeca Maria Delgado Gomez (Novi, Mich.), Ruchika Singh (Chandler, Ariz.) and John Charles Weast (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for establishing the management and functions of a software-defined vehicle platform are disclosed. An example technique for configuring power usage and management includes: evaluating data that enumerates characteristics of multiple vehicl...