US Patent Issued to TORC ROBOTICS on July 28 for "Multi-vehicle adaptive cruise control as a constrained distance bound" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,878, issued on July 28, was assigned to TORC ROBOTICS INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Multi-vehicle adaptive cruise control as a constrained distance bound" was invented by Rikki Valverde (Blacksburg, Va.), Nikhilkumar Bhalodiya (Blacksburg, Va.) and Sheril Avikkal Kunhippurayil (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of determining distance bounds for adaptive cruise control. An autonomous vehicle system can identify a second vehicle on the roadway that is traveling in front of the autonomous vehicle; determine a speed of the second vehicle while the second vehicle travels along the roadway; generate a distance ...