US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 14 for "System and method for selective operation of an automated off-road speed control for a vehicle" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,336, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for selective operation of an automated off-road speed control for a vehicle" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Matthew Johnson (Toledo, Ohio) and Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system may include a mode selector for enabling selection of an operating mode of the vehicle among a plurality of selectable operating modes, where at least one of the selectable operating modes includes an off-road driving assistance mode that controls propulsive torque and braking tor...