US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on Aug. 25 for "Personalized adaptive cruise control based on steady-state operation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,438, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Personalized adaptive cruise control based on steady-state operation" was invented by Zhouqiao Zhao (Riverside, Calif.), Ziran Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Prashant Tiwari (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personalized adaptive cruise control (P-ACC) system and associated algorithm are disclosed for determining a driver's preferred following gap in relation to vehicle speed based on periods of steady-state operation of a vehicle. Wh...