US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Sept. 23 for "Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and adaptive cruise control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,792, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and adaptive cruise control system" was invented by Tatsuya Iba (Hitachinaka, Japan), Kentaro Ueno (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Hiroshi Ito (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lead vehicle (1) in an adaptive cruise control system that non-mechanically connects a following vehicle (2) to the lead vehicle (1) sequentially and that causes the following vehicle (2) to follow its immediately preceding vehicle calculates vehicle velocity limit (V1max) for limiting a velocity of the lead vehicl...