US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Sept. 23 for "Network assisted platooning for self driving vehicles" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,102, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Network assisted platooning for self driving vehicles" was invented by Gaviphat Lekutai (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for facilitating communications between vehicles within a platoon while minimizing latency. In some embodiments, such techniques may be performed by a lead vehicle and may comprise obtaining, from one or more sensors, sensor information pertaining to an environment in which the lead vehicle is located and generating, from the sensor information, driving instructions to be executed by a plat...