ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,684, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).
"Vehicle to vehicle communication" was invented by Jennifer Kay Light-Holets (Greenwood, Ind.) and Arun Prakash Thunga Gopal (Columbus, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system disclosed herein is for communication between a first electric vehicle and a second electric vehicle following the first electric vehicle on a route. The system includes a controller communicatively coupled to a battery associated with the second electric vehicle. The controller is configured to acquire a set of operating parameters associated with the first electric vehicle from the fi...