US Patent Issued to KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fur Nutzfahrzeuge on Nov. 3 for "Method for adaptively controlling the speed of a motor vehicle using an adaptive cruise control system, and adaptive cruise control system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,197, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fur Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH (Munich).

"Method for adaptively controlling the speed of a motor vehicle using an adaptive cruise control system, and adaptive cruise control system" was invented by Adam Bekker (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adaptive control of the speed of a motor vehicle with the aid of an adaptive cruise control system, in which a target speed is set for the motor vehicle, and the distance and the relative speed with respect to an object travelling ahead of the motor vehicle are detected with at least one sensor, and the speed in the motor vehi...