ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,540, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Communication system and method for correlating wireless communication performance with vehicle system configurations" was invented by Maurice Hutchins (Mims, Fla.) and Brian William Schroeck (Rockledge, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for correlating wireless communication performance with vehicle system configurations determine wireless message characteristics of wireless messages communicated between vehicles in vehicle systems and locations along a route where the wireless message characteristics were determined. The ...