ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,039, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reputation score assignment for vehicle-based communications" was invented by Jonathan Petit (Wenham, Mass.), Soumya Das (San Diego), Mohammad Nekoui (San Diego) and Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for assigning a reputation score for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. For example, a process may include receiving, at a receiving device (e.g., a vehicle, network entity, etc.), vehicle-based messages from a transmitting device (e.g., a vehicle, network-equipped infrastructure, etc.). Each of ...