ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,294, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Advanced temperature measures for autonomous driving" was invented by Viktor Potyka (Dachau, Germany), Alexander Spindler (Berglern, Germany) and Joachim Moederndorfer (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for communication including an apparatus, e.g., a vehicle. The apparatus may obtain an indication of a set of parameters associated with the vehicle. The apparatus may also determine that at least one parameter in the set of parameters is greater than or equal to a threshold level. The apparatus may also outpu...