US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "System for forming platoons to teleoperate a group of vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,431, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"System for forming platoons to teleoperate a group of vehicles" was invented by Xunbi Ji (Mountain View, Calif.), Sergei S. Avedisov (Mountain View, Calif.), Taishi Sase (Mountain View, Calif.), Ahmadreza Moradipari (Mountain View, Calif.), Mohammad Irfan Khan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Onur Altintas (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of vehicles traveling to a destination may be determined from platoon formation messages received from the pluralit...