ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,327, issued on April 15, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Vehicle control system and method" was invented by Andrew Ryan Staats (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Karen Ann Shaw (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), James Allen Oswald (Coggon, Iowa), Ajith Kuttannair Kumar (Erie, Pa.) and Glenn Robert Shaffer (Lawrence Park, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system and method include processors that determine that an energy storage device of a vehicle will have insufficient energy to power a propulsion system of the vehicle under a first set of operational settings to move the vehicle from a first location withi...