US Patent Issued to Cybernet Systems on June 3 for "Autonomous transportation system and methods" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,294, issued on June 3, was assigned to Cybernet Systems Corp. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Autonomous transportation system and methods" was invented by Charles J. Jacobus (Brighton, Mich.), Douglas Haanpaa (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Eugene Foulk (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Pritpaul Mahal (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Steve Rowe (Grass Lake, Mich.), Charles J. Cohen (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Glenn J. Beach (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous and manually operated vehicles are integrated into a cohesive, interactive environment, with communications to each other and to their surroundings, to improve traffic flow while reducing accidents and other ...