US Patent Issued to AMPERE on June 30 for "Braking control method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,216, issued on June 30, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

"Braking control method" was invented by Julien Carvalho (Guyancourt cedex, France) and Thibault Hallouin (Guyancourt cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method controls autonomous emergency braking of an ego motor vehicle by initializing a braking reserve level and a time counter to a predetermined value, activating autonomous emergency braking, consuming a braking reserve and decrementing the braking reserve level for as long as the autonomous emergency braking is active, deactivating the autonomous emergency braking as soon as a brakin...