ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,374, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for operating one or more self-driving vehicles" was invented by Ryan Christopher Gariepy (Kitchener, Canada), Yvan Geoffrey Rodrigues (Kitchener, Canada), Matthew Lord (Kitchener, Canada), Ivor Wanders (Kitchener, Canada), Jason Mercer (Kitchener, Canada), James Servos (Kitchener, Canada) and Roydyn Clayton (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various embodiments described herein generally relate to systems and methods for operating one or more self-driving vehicles. In some embodiments, the s...