ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,753, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Creation of following distance profiles" was invented by Andreas Schmitt (Cologne, Germany), Jesus Rodriguez (Yokohama, Japan), Kazuya Tamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Ming Gao (Harsum, Germany), Oliver Roeth (Elze, Germany) and Keisuke Namura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ascertaining following distances as a function of position by a control device. Measurement data of at least one trajectory along at least one route, having a multiplicity of measurement points including position data and distance data from vehicles that are ahe...