US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on Nov. 18 for "Vehicle control systems and methods" (Iowa, Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,000, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Vehicle control systems and methods" was invented by James A Oswald (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Jeffrey D. Chapman (St. Augustine, Fla.), Jeffrey D. Kernwein (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Jared Little (Fort Worth, Texas) and Vinaykanth V. Mudiam (West Melbourne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system and method includes identifying a type of route equipment disposed onboard a vehicle, and identifying one or more locations of a first classification of a pathway from among plural different classifications of pathways along a route. One or ...