ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,998, issued on April 14, was assigned to CAVH LLC (Fitchburg, Wis.).

"Distributed computing for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Bin Ran (Fitchburg, Wis.), Sicheng Fu (Fitchburg, Wis.), Rui Gan (Fitchburg, Wis.), Yang Cheng (Middleton, Wis.), Shen Li (Fitchburg, Wis.), Kexin Tian (Fitchburg, Wis.), Tianyi Chen (Fitchburg, Wis.), Shuoxuan Dong (Fitchburg, Wis.), Kunsong Shi (Fitchburg, Wis.), Haotian Shi (Fitchburg, Wis.) and Xiaotian Li (Fitchburg, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention presents an automated driving system with distributed computing (ADS-DC). During the operation of a connected automated vehicle (CAV...