US Patent Issued to AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TESTING CENTER on Sept. 15 for "Vehicle platoon intersection decision-making system and method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,970, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TESTING CENTER (Changhua Hsien, Taiwan).

"Vehicle platoon intersection decision-making system and method thereof" was invented by Kun-Sheng Wang (Changhua Hsien, Taiwan) and Tsung-Ming Hsu (Changhua Hsien, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle platoon intersection decision-making system includes multiple vehicles. When executing the intersection decision-making process, the captain vehicle determines whether the platoon can pass through the intersection at the current speed command; if yes, the captain vehicle directs each vehicle to maintain travelling at the ...