US Patent Issued to Hitachi Rail GTS Canada on Oct. 14 for "Controller, system and method for vehicle control" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,379, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hitachi Rail GTS Canada Inc. (Toronto).

"Controller, system and method for vehicle control" was invented by Alon Green (Toronto), Dennis Yazhemsky (Toronto) and Shahin Sirouspour (Hamilton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a vehicle includes a processor configured to repeatedly perform operations, at each control iteration among a plurality of control iterations along a path of the vehicle from a start location to a target location. The operations include, based on a current state of the vehicle, generating a travel plan for a remainder of the path from a current position ...