ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,327, issued on March 3, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Travel determination method and travel determination system" was invented by Yoshihiro Ujiie (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first vehicle is an unmanned ground vehicle and holds a first digital certificate according to at least one of a vehicle purpose of the first vehicle and a service of the first vehicle, and a second vehicle holds a second digital certificate according to at least one of a vehicle purpose of the second vehicle and a service of the second vehicle. A travel determination method includes obtai...