ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,648, issued on June 17, was assigned to HAULOTTE GROUP (Lorette, France).
"Methods and systems for managing a vehicle fleet" was invented by Luc Thevenon (Saint-Etienne, France), Romain Hourne (Brignais, France) and Christophe Silveira (Saint Genis Laval, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a vehicle including a control system including a central processing unit and a communication interface, the central unit being configured to: receive a restriction of a functionality of the vehicle, via a communication interface; update a list of restriction policies based on the received restriction; and analyze the control orders ...