ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,299, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Powered system control system and method" was invented by Ajith Kuttannair Kumar (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method includes identifying one or more operating conditions of a vehicle based at least in part on data received from one or more sensors, and determining whether a change in the one or more operating conditions of the vehicle indicates an event involving the vehicle. A responsive action involving one or more onboard power sources of the vehicle is initiated responsive to determining the occurrence of the ev...