ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,751, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Transmitting sideband data to enable tele-operation of a vehicle" was invented by Mark Fischer (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may generate visual data from a vehicle in a transportation network. The system may also generate sideband data from the vehicle. The sideband data may encapsulate a serialization of vehicle information collected using one or more sensors of the vehicle. In some implementations, the sideband data may be formatted according to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to enable reconstruction of the vehicl...