ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,133, issued on June 16, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Predicting wireless quality of service (QoS) for connected vehicles" was invented by Garnik Kakosyan (Plano, Texas), Utsav Agarwal (Issaquah, Wash.), Alejandro Gil Castellanos (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Kalyana Chakravarthy Bedhu (McKinney, Texas) and Shruti Bothe (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of a route prediction system utilizing real-time mobile communication network data. The method includes receiving a route request originating from a connected vehicle, the route request identifying a route, determining segments ...