US Patent Issued to HANSA TEKNETICS on March 17 for "Multi-lane traffic management system for platoons of autonomous vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,894, issued on March 17, was assigned to HANSA TEKNETICS LLC (San Marcos, Calif.).

"Multi-lane traffic management system for platoons of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Georg Schlueter (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic management system for multi-lane roads that manages all traffic on dedicated lanes to achieve much higher rates of traffic flow compared to existing freeways. Managed lanes consist entirely of platoons of autonomous vehicles that have a regular, repeating structure. Intra-platoon and inter-platoon spacing is tightly controlled to increase vehicle density. Vehicle speeds differ on differ...