ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,129, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Peloton Technology Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for analyzing vehicles" was invented by Joshua Switkes (Mountain View, Calif.) and Evan Nakano (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for determining whether a platooning system is safe. In various aspects, a platooning system may collect information from various sensors included on one or more vehicles, and use the gathered information to determine whether the system achieves a threshold amount of safeness is achieved. In response to determining that a vehicle is unsafe, a syste...