US Patent Issued to Scania on June 23 for "Following distance based on historic brake events" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,122, issued on June 23, was assigned to Scania CV AB (Sodertalje, Sweden).

"Following distance based on historic brake events" was invented by Alexander Stamp (Huddinge, Sweden) and Mikael Alenius (Segeltorp, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to determining a following distance, between a vehicle and a vehicle travelling ahead. According to a first aspect, the disclosure relates to a method that comprises obtaining an amount of energy required to propel the vehicle along the upcoming road as a function of following distance to the vehicle travelling ahead and predicting, based on brake actuation per...