US Patent Issued to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY on Aug. 26 for "Multi-objective optimization control method and system for cooperative ramp merging of connected vehicles on highway" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,541, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Multi-objective optimization control method and system for cooperative ramp merging of connected vehicles on highway" was invented by Hanxuan Dong (Nanjing, China), Fan Ding (Nanjing, China), Hailong Zhang (Nanjing, China), Huachun Tan (Nanjing, China), Linhui Ye (Nanjing, China) and Yunqi Dai (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State data of vehicles in a control area is collected, then time of starting control and selection of controlled vehicles are decided according to a position of a ramp merging vehicle, information is transmitted into a ...