US Patent Issued to Cummins on April 14 for "Systems and methods for gear shifting management in cooperative adaptive cruise control" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,354, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for gear shifting management in cooperative adaptive cruise control" was invented by Hoseinali Borhan (Bloomington, Ind.) and Timothy R. Frazier (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for transmission gear shift management of a vehicle having cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) are provided. A method includes: enabling a cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) mode of a vehicle; updating a transmission shift map to adjust at least one threshold associated with a transmission shift event in response to en...