ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,151, issued on April 29, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for controlling motion of articulated vehicles" was invented by Marcus Greiff (Cambridge, Mass.), Rien Quirynen (Cambridge, Mass.), Karl Berntorp (Cambridge, Mass.), Stefano Di Cairano (Cambridge, Mass.), Yebin Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), Eyad Zeino (Cambridge, Mass.), Astha Tiwari (Cambridge, Mass.), Hassan Iqbal (Cambridge, Mass.), Shuangxuan Ran (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sixiong You (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling motion of an articulated vehicle with one or multiple trai...