US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on June 2 for "Systems and methods for maintaining vehicle speed during road grade changes" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,552, issued on June 2, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for maintaining vehicle speed during road grade changes" was invented by Sandeep Kumar Reddy Janampally (Canton, Mich.), Alejandro M. Sanchez (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Motonori Kimura (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for dynamically maintaining a vehicle speed during a change in road grade comprises a first sensor configured to detect a depression amount of an accelerator pedal and a second sensor configured to monitor the vehicle speed. The system further comprises a vehicle spe...