US Patent Issued to DENSO on Nov. 11 for "Platooning formation pattern proposal method, platooning formation pattern proposal device, and platooning formation pattern proposal system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,393, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Platooning formation pattern proposal method, platooning formation pattern proposal device, and platooning formation pattern proposal system" was invented by Makiko Hanzaki (Kariya, Japan), Hajime Nomura (Kariya, Japan) and Kei Okada (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By a platooning formation pattern proposal method, a platooning formation pattern proposal device, or a platooning formation pattern proposal system, a formation pattern of platooning is proposed when vehicles perform the platooning, information related to the formation pattern is collected...