ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,460, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Managing telematic data transmission using a global navigation satellite system" was invented by Ahamed Jalaldeen Shahul Hamid (Bangalore, India), Santosh Rajashekar (Bangalore, India) and Selvi John (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to managing telematic data transmission using a global navigation satellite system, one or more computer processors monitor an internet connectivity of a computing device associated with a vehicle. One or more computer processors determine the internet connectivity has failed. One ...