US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on June 9 for "Model-based predictive control of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,485, issued on June 9, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Model-based predictive control of a motor vehicle" was invented by Timo Wehlen (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Timon Busse (Munich), Valerie Engel (Markdorf, Germany), Lorenz Fischer (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Matthias Zink (Kressbronn, Germany), Raffael Selegrad (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and Andreas Wendzel (Grunkraut, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for model-based predictive control (MPC) of a motor vehicle includes executing an MPC algorithm having a high level solver module, a longitudinal dynamics model, and a cost function de...