ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,169, issued on July 8, was assigned to GREAT WALL MOTOR COMPANY Ltd. (Hebei, China).

"Adaptive cruise control system and adaptive cruise control method supporting traffic light recognition" was invented by Junjie Chang (Baoding, China), Yuanyuan Zhang (Baoding, China), Pu Li (Baoding, China), Longbao Zhen (Baoding, China) and Kai Zhang (Baoding, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive cruise control system and an adaptive cruise control method supporting traffic light recognition are provided. The adaptive cruise control system in the present disclosure includes: a wireless receiver adaptive with a wireless transmitter of eac...