ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,476, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Secured management of maneuver identifications (IDS)" was invented by Jean-Philippe Monteuuis (Northborough, Mass.), Jonathan Petit (Wenham, Mass.), Seung Ryul Yang (San Diego), Cong Chen (San Diego) and Mohammad Raashid Ansari (Lowell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for securely managing maneuver identifications (IDs) for vehicle-based communications. For example, a method may include transmitting a message associated with a potential maneuver by the vehicle, determining a maneuver identification (ID) for the potential mane...