US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 12 for "Energy-optimized cruise control with speed flexibility" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,367, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Energy-optimized cruise control with speed flexibility" was invented by Matthew Stephen Zebiak (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Amanpal S. Grewal (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cruise control method for a vehicle includes receiving a set speed and determining a commanded axle torque to maintain the set speed on a road that is flat. The method further includes commanding a propulsion system of the vehicle to produce the commanded axle torque to maintain the set speed and applying a fading memory filter to the commanded axle torque to generate ...