ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,453, issued on March 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Activating adaptive cruise control" was invented by Andrew Denis Lewandowski (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Jordan Barrett (Milford, Mich.), Brendan Francis Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.) and Anthony Maraldo (Southgate, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer is programmed to, in response to a navigation feature being active for a route, prompt an operator of the vehicle to activate a driver-assist feature of the vehicle. For example, the computer can output a message via a user interface indicating that the driv...