ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,120, issued on March 18, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Vehicle control system and method" was invented by Robyn Caldwell (Coventry, Great Britain), Denis Fusconi (Warwickshire, Italy), Gareth Davies (Coventry, Great Britain) and Kieron Stanger (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for controlling generation of a steering overlay signal to control a trajectory of a host vehicle can include one or more controllers and is configured to identify a lateral boundary of the host-vehicle lane of travel. The control system monitors a position of the host vehicle in relat...