US Patent Issued to AMPERE on Nov. 25 for "Method for automatically managing the longitudinal speed of a vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,429, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Method for automatically managing the longitudinal speed of a vehicle" was invented by Pedro Kvieska (Versailles, France) and Guillermo Pita-Gil (Versailles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing the longitudinal speed of a vehicle includes detecting vehicles in traffic surrounding the first vehicle and calculating reference speeds of the vehicles. The method further includes calculating a maximum and minimum speed setpoint based on the reference speeds and calculating a speed setpoint of the vehicle that is between or equal t...