ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,362, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Vehicle control system" was invented by Kendrick Gawne (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Alex Young (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system and method may obtain a route data file for a network of first routes that the vehicle system is headed toward from the off-board component, determine a set of potential routes from the first routes in the network using the route data file, present the set of the potential routes to an operator of the vehicle system, determine whether a selection of a selected route of the potentia...