US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Nov. 11 for "Adapting a gain factor of an acceleration controller for a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,404, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Adapting a gain factor of an acceleration controller for a motor vehicle" was invented by Luca Puccetti (Neufahrn, Germany) and Ahmed Yasser (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for adapting a gain factor of an acceleration controller for a motor vehicle are provided. An acceleration controller specifies an acceleration setpoint for the motor vehicle in a time increment. The acceleration setpoint is specified as a function a speed setpoint of the motor vehicle, an actual speed of the motor vehicle, and the gain factor. The device stor...