US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA on Oct. 27 for "Optimization of vehicle hauler loading and transportation routes" (Texas, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,902, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Optimization of vehicle hauler loading and transportation routes" was invented by Anthony D. Sanor (Melissa, Texas), Dean H. Butts (Plano, Texas), Adam J. Mantelmacher (Frisco, Texas), Jamese Yarber (Carrollton, Texas), Mark Derickson (The Colony, Texas), Zhaojian Li (East Lansing, Mich.) and Ilya Kolmanovsky (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to optimize the loading of vehicle haulers and their transportation routes is described herein. The system considers various loading constraints (e.g., dimension, weight, e...