ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,944, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Control system and method for a vehicle" was invented by David Wilson (Coventry, Great Britain) and James Balfour (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a control system for a vehicle. The control system is configured to receive speed profile data indicative of a speed profile of the vehicle, wherein the speed profile represents one or more speeds at which the vehicle will be automatically controlled to travel at on a route ahead of the vehicle; receive route data indicative of the r...