US Patent Issued to Freeport-McMoRan on Oct. 7 for "Methods and systems for operating vehicles to reduce bunching" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,633, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (Phoenix).

"Methods and systems for operating vehicles to reduce bunching" was invented by Mary Amelia Walker (Phoenix), Robert Catron (Phoenix) and Nicholas Hickson (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of operating vehicles to reduce bunching of the vehicles when traveling on a roadway determine an intra arrival time for two consecutive vehicles traveling on the roadway; calculate a virtual spacing between the two consecutive vehicles based on the intra arrival time; determine a following distance threshold; compare the virtual spacing between the two...