US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Sept. 29 for "Convoy management device and convoy management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,406, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Convoy management device and convoy management method" was invented by Miki Arai (Tokyo), Takayasu Hashimoto (Tokyo), Misato Watanabe (Tokyo), Dongsuk Park (Tokyo) and Yuri Kubota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle sensing unit to sense a plurality of convoy-management-target vehicles; an occupant state sensing unit to sense states of occupants riding the plurality of convoy-management-target vehicles sensed by the vehicle sensing unit; a convoy computing unit to compute a convoy of the plurality of convoy-management-target vehicles sensed by t...