ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,060, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Vehicle control system" was invented by Brian Scott Smith (Suwanee, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system is provided that obtains a movement plan that includes schedules for movements of vehicle systems traveling in a network of routes. The movement plan may be generated by a network control system located off-board the vehicle systems. The control system may obtain pacing directives associated with different segment of the routes that a first vehicle system of the vehicle systems is traveling or will travel on according to the move...