ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,579, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LEMKO Corp. (Schaumburg, Ill.).

"Automated vehicle control distributed network apparatuses and methods" was invented by Shaowei Pan (Kildeer, Ill.) and Brian Ponte (Palatine, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated vehicle control distributed network node, that includes at least two modems for communicating with two neighboring roadside nodes on the same side of the roadway; at least one antenna for communicating with vehicles via a wireless connection; pattern recognition processing operative to detect patterns using image data from a plurality of high speed, high resolution video camer...