ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,722, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sonatus Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System, method, and apparatus to support mixed network communications on a vehicle" was invented by Yu Fang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Robin Reed (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method, including a vehicle having a first network zone and a second network zone; a converged network device (CND) interposed between the first network zone and the second network zone, the CND comprising: a policy manager circuit structured to interpret a policy comprising a network regulation description, wherein the policy comprises a default policy val...