US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 20 for "Systems and methods for controlling longitudinal acceleration based on lateral objects" (Michigan, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,481, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for controlling longitudinal acceleration based on lateral objects" was invented by Alice Kassar (Detroit) and Ramadev Burigsay Hukkeri (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for controlling acceleration of a vehicle. The methods comprising: detecting, by a computing device, a lateral distance from a point on a trajectory of the vehicle to a first object the vehicle is expected to pass when following the trajectory, the first object being located off of an...