ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,092, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Automated adjustment of vehicle direction based on environment analysis" was invented by Shreyas Shivaprasad (Mountain View, Calif.), Riccardo Lopez (Mountain View, Calif.), Jason McLoud (San Jose, Calif.), Ibrahim Shaikh (Redwood City, Calif.), Michael Rizkalla (Los Altos, Calif.), Silvio Brugada (San Francisco), Aleksei Potov (San Jose, Calif.), Richard Baverstock (San Jose, Calif.), David Exe (Mountain View, Calif.), Romanie Cnockaert (Wervik, Belgium) and Alec de Zegher (Millbrae, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems an...