US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 15 for "Cooperative operation of vehicles" (Indian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,859, issued on April 15, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cooperative operation of vehicles" was invented by Gandhi Sivakumar (Bentleigh, Australia), Smitkumar Narotambhai Marvaniya (Bangalore, India), Vijay Ekambaram (Chennai, India), Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri (Mysore, India) and Ashok Pon Kumar Sree Prakash (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may receive a route request from a user. The processor may receive data associated with predicted routes of one or more nearby vehicles. The processor may select a recipient vehicle from the one or more nearby vehicles, where ...