ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,368, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Five AI Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Adaptive cruise control" was invented by Steffen Jaekel (Bristol, Great Britain), Alexandre Oliveira E Silva (Bristol, Great Britain), Bence Magyar (Bristol, Great Britain), Alejandro Bordallo Mico (Bristol, Great Britain) and Marco Andrea Ferri (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With respect to an adaptive cruise control method for autonomously adapting the speed of an ego vehicle (300) to maintain a target headway, headway being distance from the ego vehicle to a forward vehicle (302), the ego vehicle equipped with a perception sys...