US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on Jan. 20 for "Vehicle communication control system" (Pennsylvania, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,520, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Vehicle communication control system" was invented by Scott Crossley (Waterford, Pa.), Patricia Sue Lacy (Lawrence Park, Pa.) and Ajith Kuttannair Kumar (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that may include receiving consist commands from a vehicle system controller at a consist controller onboard at least one consist of a multi-vehicle system. The consist commands may direct one or more of a power call or a braking call by the at least one consist. The method may include determining individual vehicle commands for e...