ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,078, issued on May 26, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Method and device for accelerating a motor vehicle" was invented by Helena Dolinaj (Munich), Miguel Loenne (Munich) and Sebastien Mathieu (Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for controlling the coasting mode of a vehicle in the context of a distance control and/or speed control function of the vehicle. The device is designed to determine that, upon exiting the coasting mode, the vehicle has an actual vehicle speed which lies below a target speed of the distance control and/or speed control function and/or an actual distance to...