US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Jan. 27 for "Automatic vehicle braking control systems" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,050, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Automatic vehicle braking control systems" was invented by Paul A. Adam (Milford, Mich.), Harsh Ketan Patel (New Hudson, Mich.), Zhiyuan Du (Troy, Mich.) and Tetyana V. Mamchuk (Walled Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automated vehicle braking control includes detecting a first object threat in a reverse travel path of a vehicle, monitoring a distance of the vehicle from the first object threat with respect to a time to collision threshold, and in response to a determination that the vehicle is crossing the time to collision ...