ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,491, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Communicating precedence using vehicle to everything (V2X) messages" was invented by Junho Park (Seven Fields, Pa.), Hahkrel Noh (Brookline, Mass.) and Jungnam Bae (Mars, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for communicating precedence using vehicle to everything (V2X) messages, which include broadcasting at least one outgoing message associated with an upcoming intersection, and receiving at least one incoming message to at least one other vehicle approaching the upcoming intersection. Some methods described also include determining a priority con...