ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,634, issued on June 24.

"Systems and methods using dual vehicle digital twins for model-based learning and remotely-operated vehicles" was invented by Laleh Ghalami (Troy, Mich.), James Wilhelm Heaton (Saline, Mich.), Praveen Kumar Yalavarty (Novi, Mich.), Sajit Janardhanan (Canton, Mich.) and Navid Tafaghodi Khajavi (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems and using dual vehicle digital twins for model-based learning and remotely-operated vehicles. An example method may include receiving, by a processor associated with a first digital twin stored locally on a computing system of a vehicle or a se...