US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 7 for "Determining and outputting a setpoint acceleration of a motor vehicle for automatically starting the motor vehicle by an autonomous cruise control system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,674, issued on July 7, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Determining and outputting a setpoint acceleration of a motor vehicle for automatically starting the motor vehicle by an autonomous cruise control system" was invented by Thomas Velten (Siegsdorf, Germany) and Benjamin Reicherzer (Karlsfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a setpoint acceleration of a motor vehicle and for outputting the determined setpoint acceleration for automatically starting the motor vehicle by an autonomous cruise control system is provided. The method has a first step of ramping up a setpoint accelerat...