ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,273, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Method and computer system for controlling the movement of a host vehicle" was invented by Kun Zhao (Dusseldorf, Germany), Ido Freeman (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Thomas Kurbiel (Essen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for controlling the movement of a host vehicle. Lane data related to road items are determined from a data source, and object data acquired from objects are determined via a sensor system. The road items and the objects are located in an external environment of the host vehicle. A machine-learning algori...