ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,940, issued on May 27, was assigned to Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC (Avon, Ohio).
"Adaptive cruise control system and method" was invented by Anna A Crowder (Medina, Ohio), Michael K Lesher (North Ridgeville, Ohio) and Mathew J John (Avon, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for an adaptive cruise control that controls a speed of a host vehicle as a passing vehicle quickly passes through a trajectory of the host vehicle. In one form, a system includes at least one processor that is configured to determine that a passing vehicle is entering a trajectory in which the host veh...