ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,407, issued on July 14, was assigned to Outrider Technologies Inc. (Brighton, Colo.).

"System and method for operating and managing an autonomous vehicle interchange zone" was invented by Andrew F. Smith (Bend, Ore.), Joseph A. Welsh (Golden, Colo.), William N. Klarquist (Littleton, Colo.), Peter James (Denver), Geoffrey W. Johnson (Golden, Colo.), Kayla M. Holcomb (Denver), Lawrence S. Klein (Bend, Ore.), Jason L. Williams (Bloomingdale, Ill.), Floyd C. Henning (Arvada, Colo.) and Jeremy M. Nett (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This provides a system and method for handling the interchange of trailers between an over...