US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Feb. 10 for "System and method for longitudinal control on approach to a traffic cluster" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,435, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for longitudinal control on approach to a traffic cluster" was invented by Paul A. Adam (Milford, Mich.), Jeffrey Scott Parks (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Bryan M. Joyner (Clarkston, Mich.), Tetyana V. Mamchuk (Novi, Mich.) and Jaehoon Kim (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for longitudinal control on approach to a traffic cluster includes receiving sensor data detected by one or more sensors in communication with a vehicle, processing the sensor data to determine that it indicates an approaching cluster,...