ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,590, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FERRARI S.P.A. (Modena, Italy).

"Automotive competition method for road vehicle, relative apparatus and relative road vehicle" was invented by Andrea Secondi (Modena, Italy) and Marco Guglielmo Ribigini (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive competition method for having at least a first real road vehicle and a second virtual road vehicle race with each other; the method comprises the steps of: defining a virtual space, comprising a virtual track, on which a virtual projection of the first road vehicle and the second road vehicle race together; moving the virtual projection...