ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,404, issued on May 5, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle maneuvering" was invented by Yousaf Rahman (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Mrdjan J. Jankovic (Birmingham, Mich.) and Mario Anthony Santillo (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 receive a command for a host vehicle to perform a maneuver, detect a target vehicle, minimize a cost function, determine a host control input for the host vehicle based on the minimization of the cost function, and actuate the host vehicle to perform the maneuv...