US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on March 24 for "Vehicle control system and method" (Iowa, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,494, issued on March 24, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Vehicle control system and method" was invented by James A. Oswald (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Alan Tentinger (Germantown, Md.), Alex Young (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Phillip A. Burgart (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Ann K. Grimm (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system and method includes obtaining information associated with a vehicle system that includes one or more vehicles that are configured to move along a route. The vehicle system information is applied to a trip simulation to determine how the vehicle system is expected oper...