ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,132, issued on June 24, was assigned to Autonomous Solutions Inc. (Mendon, Utah).

"Autonomous vehicle playlists" was invented by Brian Stewart (Mendon, Utah), Paul Lewis (Mendon, Utah), Ben Hill (Mendon, Utah), Dave Hollingshead (Mendon, Utah), Sean Gardner (Mendon, Utah) and Eric Budd (Mendon, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle system that provides a playlist of potential paths for a user to select and implement so that an autonomous vehicle can follow the playlist of potential paths from one path to another path to another path is disclosed. The playlist may include one or more paths repeated any number of ti...