ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,509, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and system for adaptively controlling object spacing" was invented by Daniel Mark Graves (Edmonton, Canada) and Kasra Rezaee (Kitchener, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method or system for adaptive vehicle spacing, including determining a current state of a vehicle based on sensor data captured by sensors of the vehicle; for each possible action in a set of possible actions: (i) predicting based on the current vehicle state a future state for the vehicle, and (ii) predicting, based on the current vehicle state a first zone future s...