US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 29 for "Collaborative ruleset management for vehicles" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,466, issued on April 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Collaborative ruleset management for vehicles" was invented by Atul Mene (Morrisville, N.C.), Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to collaborative rulesets for vehicles. A collaborative ruleset for a set of vehicles can be received, the collaborative ruleset defining relative positions each vehicle is required to maintain with respect to other vehicles within the set of vehicles. Sensor data indica...