ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,495, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).
"Management and optimization of freight delivery vehicle fleets" was invented by Hoseinali Borhan (Bloomington, Ind.), Ana Guerrero de la Pena (Brownsburg, Ind.), Lisa A. Orth-Farrell (Columbus, Ind.) and Jairo Andres Sandoval Leon (Columbus, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing operation of a fleet of vehicles includes providing an optimization network including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of connections therebetween. The nodes define all potential destinations in the network for freight delivery or pickup. The connections define a...