ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,697, issued on June 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Longitudinal motion profile generation and control for achieving performance targets" was invented by Ning Jin (Novi, Mich.), Paul Guillermo Otanez (Franklin, Mich.) and Todd P. Lindemann (Brighton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion system for a vehicle includes: a profile generation module configured to obtain a current reference velocity, a current reference acceleration, a target velocity and a target acceleration for the vehicle, and based on the current reference velocity, current reference acceleration, target velocity and target...