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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2024
Transportation Ip Holdings, Llc, Norwalk, CT (US);
Jared Klineman Cooper, Melbourne, FL (US);
Samuel William Golden, Melbourne, FL (US);
Robert James Foy, Melbourne, FL (US);
David Michael Peltz, Melbourne, FL (US);
Nathan Thomas North, Seattle, WA (US);
Milan Karunaratne, Orange, CA (US);
Anthony D. Paul, Anchorage, AK (US);
Gregory Wright, Longmont, CO (US);
William Carnegie, Ortonville, MI (US);
Daniel Mcnair, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Transportation IP Holdings, LLC, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A system including a plurality of vehicles, each having disposed onboard a location device, a communication device, a control system, and an energy storage device. Thea control system may determine vehicle locations of one or more vehicles of the plurality of vehicles and states of charge of the energy storage devices onboard the one or more vehicles. The control system may communicate with the communication devices of the one or more vehicles and may direct which of one or more vehicles are to couple with each other, and thereby be powered by electric energy stored in the energy storage devices onboard the one or more vehicles directed to couple. The control system may direct which of the one or more vehicles are to couple with and be powered by the electric energy of the energy storage devices based on one or more of: the vehicle locations and the states of charge of the vehicle energy storage devices.