ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,814, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Optimising maximum transmission units for vehicle-satellite communications" was invented by Joshua Shire (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Ove Oldberg (Alingsas, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling communications includes at a server determining a current vehicle geographic location, determining a communications channel is available for the vehicle at the determined current vehicle location, dynamically adjusting a maximum transmission unit, MTU, used by the vehicle for communications over the available communications channel based on a ...