ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,536, issued on June 2, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Whitley, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle movement to align vehicle longitudinally to a detected object" was invented by Patrick Martin (Beaverton, Ore.), David Pettinger (Coventry, Great Britain), Jonathan Randall (Leamington Spa, Great Britain), Ivan Epling (Coventry, Great Britain) and Mutlu Isik (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including vehicle and control system for a vehicle, the control system having one or more controllers and being arranged to: receive a request signal indicative of a request to move th...