ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,493, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Vehicle control system and method" was invented by Danial Rice (Frederick, Md.), Charles L. Wolf (Olney, Md.), Alan Laurence Cortie (Baltimore) and Paul Gerard Bender (Clarksburg, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes a first controller configured to communicate a first brake command to one or more brake devices of a vehicle system via a communication pathway. The system includes a second controller configured to monitor the communication pathway to determine whether the first brake command from the first control...