ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,780, issued on May 13, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).

"Method for sharing data between motor vehicles to automate aspects of driving" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.) and Soroush Mehrnia (Soeborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a navigation system for a leader vehicle leading follower vehicles. The leader vehicle is configured to transmit real-time movement data to follower vehicles. The follower vehicles each include a signal receiver for receiving the data from the leader vehicle and a processor configured to determine a set of active maneuvering instructions for the respective follower...