ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,789, issued on June 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for managing traffic of connected and automated vehicle" was invented by Arnaud Bouttier (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing traffic of connected and automated vehicles, CAV, at a road intersection with N branches is provided. The method includes, for each branch i of M branches among the N branches, with iepsilon[1;M], M equal or greater than 2 and smaller or equal to N: obtaining by a CAV data related to vehicles in the i-th branch, determining by said CAV a i-th value relative to a level of priority of the i-th branc...