ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,975, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle lane changing" was invented by Yutong Li (Novi, Mich.), Kenneth Topolovec (Canton, Mich.) and Shiva Ashokrao Aher (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to, in response to an initiation of a lane-change mode by a host vehicle, determine a maximum number of timesteps for which at least one constraint on a host kinematic state of the host vehicle and a target kinematic state of at least one target vehicle is satisfiable; and, in...