US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 21 for "Vehicle control systems for controlling automated vehicle acceleration and braking" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,201, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle control systems for controlling automated vehicle acceleration and braking" was invented by Mehdi Abroshan (Waterloo, Canada), Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada) and Robert C. Baraszu (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling automated vehicle acceleration and braking includes detecting, via at least one vehicle object sensor of a host vehicle, a closest-in-path (CIP) target vehicle ahead of the host vehicle, obtaining a path history of the CIP target vehicle, the path history including multiple histori...