US Patent Issued to University of Washington, University of Portland on May 26 for "Safe occlusion-aware cooperative adaptive cruise control under environmental interference" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,075, issued on May 26, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle) and University of Portland (Portland, Ore.).

"Safe occlusion-aware cooperative adaptive cruise control under environmental interference" was invented by Yudong Lin (Seattle), Santosh Devasia (Seattle) and Brian Fabien (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method of controlling speed of an ego vehicle in a vehicle platoon is provided. Cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) commands based on at least one of a vehicle-to-vehicle communication control received from a preceding vehicle and a feedback control based on a sensor outpu...