US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 7 for "Vehicle control governor" (Michigan, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,670, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle control governor" was invented by Yutong Li (Novi, Mich.), Nan Li (Auburn, Ala.), Kenneth Topolovec (Canton, Mich.), Ilya Kolmanovsky (Novi, Mich.), Hongtei Tseng (Canton, Mich.) and Dimitar Petrov Filev (Novi, 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 determine an adjusted control input for a component of a host vehicle that maximizes a number of timesteps for which a constraint on a host kinematic state of the host vehicle and a targ...