ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,531, issued on June 9, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for grouping vehicles by adapting message communications" was invented by Sergei S. Avedisov (Redwood City, Calif.), Ahmadreza Moradipari (Mountain View, Calif.), Hongsheng Lu (San Jose, Calif.) and John B. Kenney (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to grouping vehicles by adapting communication parameters for damping disturbances through messaging. In one embodiment, a method includ...