ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,471, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CAVH LLC (Fitchburg, Wis.).

"Vehicle-road driving intelligence allocation" was invented by Bin Ran (Fitchburg, Wis.), Tianyi Chen (Madison, Wis.), Yang Cheng (Middleton, Wis.), Xiaotian Li (Madison, Wis.), Kunsong Shi (Madison, Wis.), Shen Li (Madison, Wis.), Yang Zhou (Madison, Wis.), Zhen Zhang (Madison, Wis.), Shuoxuan Dong (Madison, Wis.), Fan Ding (Madison, Wis.) and Huachun Tan (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to systems and methods that allocate, arrange, and distribute certain types of functions and intelligence, for connected automated vehicle...