US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on Sept. 23 for "Vehicle control system and method" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,796, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Vehicle control system and method" was invented by Srivallidevi Muthusami (Dallas), Mahesh Babu Natarajan (Bangalore, India), Jeremiah Dirnberger (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Adam Franco (Melbourne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system and method includes obtaining a size of a vehicle system, identifying locations of different portions of the vehicle system, and determining one or more of a) whether the vehicle system is disposed within or across an intersection of routes or b) a predicted time of arrival at which the vehic...