ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,764, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and apparatus for vehicle maneuver planning and messaging" was invented by Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.), Shailesh Patil (San Diego) and Richard Reid Hovey (Branchburg, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a vehicle to utilize vehicle external sensor data, vehicle internal sensor data, vehicle capabilities and external CV2X input to determine, send, receive and utilize data elements to determine inter-...