ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,340, issued on July 22, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"System and method for proactive lane assist" was invented by Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.), Qizhan Tam (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Therese Cypher-Plissart (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proactive pedal algorithm is used to modify an accelerator pedal map to ensure the deceleration when the accelerator pedal is released matches driver expectation. Modifying the accelerator pedal map provides the driver of a vehicle the sensation that the vehicle resists moving when travelling in dense scenes with potentially high decelera...