ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,750, issued on March 4, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Route arbitration apparatus, automatic driving controller, and automatic driving and route arbitration system" was invented by Ryo Ishida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a route arbitration apparatus, an automatic driving controller, and an automatic driving and route arbitration system which can avoid an overlapping between travel routes and make vehicles carry out a traveling operation smoothly while considering priority between vehicles, in a broad perspective, about a multiple of vehicles existing in a periphery. A route arbitration appar...