ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,851, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle pass maneuvering" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.) and Michael Alan McNees (Flat Rock, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first passing width of a first vehicle can be determined based on (1) a first vehicle angle to a horizontal plane defined with respect to a roadway and (2) a first vehicle lateral width. Upon determining that a sum of the first passing width and a second passing width of a second vehicle exceeds a first available passing width at a first location on the road, a se...