US Patent Issued to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL on April 14 for "Method for having a vehicle approach a loading ramp, control device, and vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,358, issued on April 14, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method for having a vehicle approach a loading ramp, control device, and vehicle" was invented by Andreas Goers (Pattensen, Germany) and Christoph Barth (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for having a vehicle (1) approach a loading ramp (7), wherein the vehicle (1) has an acceleration sensor (19) which is designed to detect vehicle acceleration of the vehicle (1), the method comprising the following steps: -defining a vehicle speed of the vehicle (1) such that the vehicle (1) does not exceed a spe...