US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on Feb. 24 for "Method for controlling an approach of a vehicle, distance controller, computer program, and memory unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,102, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for controlling an approach of a vehicle, distance controller, computer program, and memory unit" was invented by Martin Weissert (Eppingen, Germany) and Thorsten Schori (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an approach of a traveling vehicle to at least one preceding reference vehicle. The method includes using an automated distance setting between the vehicle and the reference vehicle, at an acceleration that may be applied for the vehicle and that is a function of an operating position of a control element ...