ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,409, issued on June 10, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).
"Map-based braking" was invented by Mark Bailey (Seattle), Erik St. Gray (Tacoma, Wash.), Kevin Kochever (San Bruno, Calif.) and Stefan Witwicki (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle control using map-based braking includes receiving, while a driver is operating the vehicle to traverse a vehicle transportation network, vehicle operation information including at least a current speed of the vehicle, retrieving, from a planned path of an in-vehicle navigation system, an upcoming turn in a current road when the driver is using the i...