ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,678, issued on July 7, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC (Golden, Colo.).

"Eco-pilot-energy-efficient vehicle speed advisory through vehicle-to-infrastructure communications" was invented by Haowen Xu (Knoxville, Tenn.), Jinghui Yuan (Knoxville, Tenn.), Chieh Wang (Knoxville, Tenn.), Timothy LaClair (Lenoir City, Tenn.), Andreas Silvan Berres (Lakewood, Colo.), Wan Li (Knoxville, Tenn.), Yunli Shao (Knoxville, Tenn.), Hong Wang (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Jibonananda Sanyal (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling the speed of a vehicle trav...