ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,896, issued on June 23, was assigned to MAN Truck & Bus SE (Munich).

"Control device for longitudinal and/or transverse guidance in a vehicle group" was invented by Christian Haupt (Munich), Julius Engasser (Munich) and Alexander BuB (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A description is given of a control device (100) for the longitudinal and/or transverse guidance of a vehicle (102), in particular a utility vehicle, in relation to at least one further vehicle (104) in a vehicle group (106). The control device (100) comprises a determination unit (108) for determining a vehicle air resistance, FL, and a further vehicle air resistan...