ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,842, issued on March 17, was assigned to CreateAI Inc. (San Diego).

"System and method for adaptive cruise control with proximate vehicle detection" was invented by Wutu Lin (San Diego), Liu Liu (San Diego), Zijie Xuan (San Diego), Xing Sun (San Diego), Kai-Chieh Ma (San Diego) and Yufei Zhao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for adaptive cruise control with proximate vehicle detection are disclosed. The example embodiment can be configured for: receiving input object data from a subsystem of a host vehicle, the input object data including distance data and velocity data relative to detected target vehicl...