US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Oct. 27 for "Model-based predictive control of a motor vehicle" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,978, issued on Oct. 27, 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), Julia Stecher (Friedrichshafen-Ettenkirch, Germany), Lothar Kiltz (Ravensburg, Germany), Andreas Wendzel (Grunkraut, Germany), Vasilis Lefkopoulos (Grunkraut, Switzerland) and Joachim Ferreau (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Model-based predictive control (MPC) of a motor vehicle involves an MPC alg...