US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on June 2 for "Method for the longitudinal guidance of a vehicle in relation to a leading vehicle driving in front by using an electronic distance-keeping system, and distance- keeping system for a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,544, issued on June 2, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for the longitudinal guidance of a vehicle in relation to a leading vehicle driving in front by using an electronic distance-keeping system, and distance- keeping system for a vehicle" was invented by Dirk Dobkowitz (Braunschweig, Germany), Jonas Kaste (Braunschweig, Germany) and Felix Kallmeyer (Wolfsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for longitudinal guidance of a vehicle relative to a leading vehicle driving in front by using an electronic distance-keeping system, includes providing an environmental parameter relating to an environ...