US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 20 for "Method for following a lead vehicle without vehicle-to-vehicle communication" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,514, issued on May 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method for following a lead vehicle without vehicle-to-vehicle communication" was invented by Md Mhafuzul Islam (Warren, Mich.), Arun Adiththan (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Prakash M. Peranandam (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Ramesh Sethu (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling an ego vehicle following a lead vehicle without vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication includes sensors disposed on the ego vehicle and capturing ego and lead vehicle condition information. Control modules disposed in the ego vehicle each have a proc...