ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,045, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmission with indication of geographic area" was invented by Zhibin Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Hillsborough, N.J.), Kapil Gulati (Hillsborough, N.J.), Arjun Bharadwaj (Poway, Calif.), Hong Cheng (Bridgewater, N.J.), Shailesh Patil (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Chester, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved manner of transmitting and receiving messages in V2X/V2V/D2D is presented in which a transmitting device determines a geographic location of the mobile transmitting device and generates a message for a service group having a group ID assoc...