ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,252, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Daimler AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Platooning control apparatus" was invented by Fumihiko Ohsawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platooning control apparatus that realizes platooning of a plurality of vehicles by causing an own vehicle to follow other vehicle. The platooning control apparatus includes a follow control unit that controls acceleration/deceleration of the own vehicle by using forward information of the own vehicle and other vehicle information obtained through vehicle-to-vehicle communication, a first acquisition unit that obtains first slope information indicatin...