US Patent Issued to Peloton Technology on April 15 for "Systems and methods for platooning and automation safety" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,977, issued on April 15, was assigned to Peloton Technology Inc. (Pacific Grove, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for platooning and automation safety" was invented by Joshua P. Switkes (Mountain View, Calif.) and Evan Nakano (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for increasing the safely platooning are described. In one aspect, safely platooning includes verifying that a vehicle is not decelerating less than necessary, verifying that the vehicle is not accelerating unintendedly, verifying that the vehicle is not decelerating unintendedly, verifying that the vehicle is not platooning unintendedly, verifyin...