ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,826, issued on June 30, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Adaptive multi-vehicle data transmission" was invented by Muhammad Umar Choudry (Seattle), Paul Orecchio (Denver), Meredith James Goldman (Redwood City, Calif.) and Ravi Gogna (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle can connect to multiple vehicles and can determine network metrics (e.g., available bandwidth, latency, signal strength, etc.) associated with the multiple vehicles and at least one cellular network. As the vehicle traverses an environment, the vehicle can collect sensor data of the environment and/or vehicle data (e.g., vehicle p...