US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 5 for "Vehicle deceleration control" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,398, issued on May 5, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle deceleration control" was invented by William Creighton (Northville, Mich.), Michael Hafner (San Carlos, Calif.), Andrew Fallon (Berkley, Mich.), Timothy Zwicky (Dearborn, Mich.) and Abhishek Sharma (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a computer including a processor and a memory. The computer is programmed to determine a target location for a vehicle; based on a vehicle speed and a distance to the target location, determine a tunable acceleration parameter; determine a constraint, based on the tunable acc...