US Patent Issued to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA on Nov. 3 for "Vehicle on-board unit for calculating target vehicle speed" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,191, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Vehicle on-board unit for calculating target vehicle speed" was invented by Nitish Gudapati (Stanford, Calif.), Fang Chieh Chou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Najamuddin Mirza Baig (San Jose, Calif.) and Liam Pedersen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle on-board unit for a host vehicle comprises a communication system and an electronic controller. The communication system is programmed to electronically receive travel information from one or more preceding vehicles that are traveling ahead of the host vehicle in a lane. The electronic contro...