ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,607, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"CV2X situationally-dependent service prioritization" was invented by Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.), Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.) and Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are providing for situationally-dependent service prioritization in a CV2X network. An example method of prioritizing data packets with a mobile device includes determining a range to a waypoint, determining an estimated time of arrival at the waypoint, computing a priority value based at least in part on the estimated time of arrival at the waypoint, and gener...