ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,434, issued on June 10, was assigned to CAVH LLC (Fitchburg, Wis.).

"Vehicle intelligent unit" was invented by Bin Ran (Fitchburg, Wis.), Kegang Zhao (Madison, Wis.), Hanchu Li (Madison, Wis.), Mingheng Zhang (Madison, Wis.), Shen Li (Madison, Wis.), Yang Cheng (Middleton, Wis.), Zhijun Chen (Madison, Wis.), Jie Ye (Madison, Wis.), Shuoxuan Dong (Madison, Wis.) and Haotian Shi (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Vehicle Intelligent Unit (VIU) is configured to provide vehicle operations and control for Connected Automated Vehicles (CAV) and, more particularly, to connect with a Collaborative Automated Driving System (CADS)...