ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,453, issued on June 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Handover assistant for machine to driver transitions" was invented by Ignacio J. Alvarez (Portland, Ore.), Michael Paulitsch (Ottobrunn, Germany), Rafael Rosales (Unterhaching, Germany), Cornelius Buerkle (Karlsruhe, Germany), Florian Geissler (Munich), Fabian Oboril (Karlsruhe, Germany), Frederik Pasch (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Yang Peng (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a vehicle handover system that monitors an environment of a vehicle. The vehicle handover system receives a transition request to change control of the vehicle from a...