ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,398, issued on July 21, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France).
"Motor vehicle driving assistance module and method" was invented by Renaud Deborne (Guyancourt cedex, France) and Raphael Quilliard (Guyancourt cedex, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance module for a motor vehicle includes a main block that receives, at input, a set of input data relating to the motor vehicle and to its environment, and that provides, at output, a preliminary control for the motor vehicle on the basis of the input data, and a safeguarding block for safeguarding the preliminary control setpoint, which safeguar...