ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,111, issued on June 23, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Controlling vehicles based on current motion characteristics" was invented by Gregory August Theodosakis (Martinez, Ga.), Russell William King (Evans, Ga.) and Jonathan Daniel Bowen (North Augusta, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to controlling a vehicle. The technique involves setting a set of motion control parameters which controls motion of the vehicle to a set of initial values. The technique further involves receiving a set of motion signals from a set of sensors, the set of motion signals indicating a set of curren...