ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,885, issued on March 17, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Autonomous vehicle control" was invented by Sara Ayoubi (Massy, France), Ilija Hadzic (Murray Hill, N.J.) and Lou Salaun (Massy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer apparatus, that receive, at an autonomous vehicle, information at least indicative of at least a velocity, a position and at least a portion of a current trajectory of at least one other autonomous vehicle; determine if a collision between the autonomous vehicle and at least one of the at least one other autonomous vehicle will occur, based, at least in part, on the received in...