ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,037, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Control system with task manager" was invented by Huan Tan (Niskayuna, N.Y.), John Michael Lizzi (Wilton, N.Y.), Charles Burton Theurer (Alplaus, N.Y.), Balajee Kannan (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Romano Patrick (Atlanta), Mark Bachman (Albia, Iowa), Michael VanderLinden (Knoxville, Iowa), Mark Bradshaw Kraeling (Melbourne, Fla.) and Norman Wellings (Agency, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes a task manager that can determine capability requirements to perform a task on the target object. The task has an associated series of sub...