ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,780, issued on April 22, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).
"Control of vehicle-to-vehicle separation" was invented by Fraser Jardine (Coventry, Great Britain), Michael Belcher (Coventry, Great Britain), Simon Nell (Coventry, Great Britain) and Daniel Woolliscroft (Coventry, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a host vehicle operable in an automated mode, wherein the control system is configured to: receive a driver selection from a first human-machine interface of a vehicle-to-vehicle separation when vehicle speed falls below a threshold; store the vehicle-to-vehicle separa...