US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Adaptive cruise control" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,639, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Adaptive cruise control" was invented by Ozgenur Kavas Torris (Dearborn, Mich.), Brandon M. Dawson (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Xiaolin Cai (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yan Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mohammad Reza Amini (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Erol Dogan Sumer (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Gopichandra Surnilla (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While operating a host vehicle in a lane of a road, a target vehicle operating in the lane in front of the host vehicle is represented with a virtual vehicle. Upon receiving, from an infrastructure element,...