ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,466, issued on June 9, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany) and Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method and device for the longitudinal control of a vehicle" was invented by Goran Huskic (Stuttgart, Germany), Atta Oveisi (Fellbach, Germany), Alexander Fursich (Stuttgart, Germany), Thomas Rothermel (Renningen, Germany), Peter Boesch (Leonberg, Germany), Andre Kempf (Stuttgart, Germany) and Klaus-Peter Kuhn (Hochdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the longitudinal control of a vehicle according to a target trajectory specifying a series of target positions to be adopted by the vehicle...