ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,009, issued on March 25, was assigned to GREAT WALL MOTOR COMPANY Ltd. (Baoding, China).

"Cruise control method and system, and vehicle" was invented by Jinchuan Li (Baoding, China), Hejia Wei (Baoding, China), Shuli Li (Baoding, China), Longbao Zhen (Baoding, China), Pu Li (Baoding, China), Shasha Gao (Baoding, China), Fengyue Zhang (Baoding, China), Hongning Zhang (Baoding, China) and Hong Dong (Baoding, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cruise control method and system, and a vehicle, the method being applied to a first vehicle. When the first vehicle is driving in a first lane, before the first vehicle enters from the first...