US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on July 1 for "System and method for jointly controlling connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and manual connected vehicles (MCVs)" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,317, issued on July 1, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for jointly controlling connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and manual connected vehicles (MCVs)" was invented by Stefano Di Cairano (Newton, Mass.), Roya Firoozi (Albany, Calif.) and Rien Quirynen (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system and a method for jointly controlling one or multiple connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and one or multiple manual connected vehicles (MCVs) moving to form traffic on the same or intersecting roads. The method includes collec...