ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,191, issued on June 23, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Target vehicle position prediction for assisted lane change" was invented by Prajwal Kumar Chinthoju (Carmel, Ind.) and Matthew Robert Smith (Springboro, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a vehicle location prediction module (VLPM) configured to receive sensor data associated with a set of target vehicles. For each respective target vehicle, the VLPM is configured to determine a prediction corresponding to the respective target vehicle. The prediction is based on a set of criteria. The prediction includes a plurality of pre...