ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,111, issued on May 13, was assigned to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, R.I.).
"Fleet controller" was invented by Grant Mark Bristow (Benbrook, Texas), Matthew David Holvey (North Richland Hills, Texas) and Naveed Ahmed Siddiqui (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle fleet, including obtaining, by a fleet controller, from a master schedule, a mission for a vehicle of a fleet of autonomous vehicles, where the mission is associated with a mission entry of the master schedule, generating vehicle commands according to mission parameters associated with the mission, maintaining a persist...