US Patent Issued to Peloton Technology on June 9 for "Systems and methods for managing communications between vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,532, issued on June 9, was assigned to Peloton Technology Inc. (Pacific Grove, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing communications between vehicles" was invented by Colleen Twitty (San Francisco), Evan Nakano (Cupertino, Calif.), Stephen Erlien (Mountain View, Calif.) and Joshua Switkes (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for increasing the efficiency of vehicle platooning systems are described. In one aspect, drivers are more likely to enjoy a system if it begins platooning as desired and does not accidently end platoons. When a certain amount of data packets sent between vehicles are dropp...