ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,084, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).
"Method for controlling a communication between a vehicle and a backend device" was invented by Jan Rademakers (Barendrecht, Netherlands) and Caroline Pueschel-Bahrdt (Dannefeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for controlling communication between a vehicle and a backend device in a vehicle-to-cloud-system. A message may be sent from the vehicle to the backend device, and a timer is set for receiving an acknowledgment from the backend device at the vehicle that the message was successfully received. The message may be resent ...