ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,312, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Computer-implemented method for connecting a vehicle to a wireless local network of a workshop" was invented by Julien Maitre (Chuzelles, France) and Yann Quibriac (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for connecting a vehicle to a wireless local network of a workshop includes identifying at least one wireless local network configuration of the wireless local network, said wireless local network configuration being associated with credentials for using said wireless local network; associating at least one validity pa...