US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 11 for "Trigger event personalized adaptive cruise control (P-ACC)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,405, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Trigger event personalized adaptive cruise control (P-ACC)" was invented by Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Amr Abdelraouf (Redwood City, Calif.) and Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for learning a driving behavior during a cut-in cut-out event or other triggering event to create a profile that adjusts operation of the adaptive cruise control (ACC) component of the vehicle to mimic the preferences of the driver. Th...