ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,167, issued on July 8, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Vehicle and control device" was invented by Jinsong Duan (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle include a first wheel and a second wheel, a steering circuit configured to steer at least one of the first wheel and the second wheel, and a wireless communication circuit configured to wirelessly communicate with the first vehicle and the second vehicle. When the wireless communication circuit receives a scheduled route of the first vehicle from the first vehicle while the vehicle is traveling on a first scheduled route, and determines...