ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,018, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Vehicle control system and method" was invented by Gayathri Seenumani (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Harry Kirk Mathews (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Brian Nedward Meyer (Fairview, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system and method may include one or more processors that may receive a data set associated with plural waypoint locations along one or more routes. The data set may indicate plural waypoint locations, target arrival time windows for a vehicle system to reach the plural waypoint locations, and priority ranks of the plural waypoint l...