US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on Jan. 13 for "Vehicle control system and method" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,097, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Vehicle control system and method" was invented by Milan Karunaratne (Orange, Calif.) and Nathan Thomas North (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes one or more processors that obtain event data associated with a vehicle. The processors also receive a statement including a designated chargeable usage of the vehicle, and access one or more rules dictating rule-based chargeable usage of the vehicle. The processors may compare the event data with the one or more rules to determine the rule-based chargeable usage of the ve...