US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 25 for "Blindspot aware adaptive cruise control" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,430, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Blindspot aware adaptive cruise control" was invented by Noah M. Einstein (Ann Arbor, Mich.), David Hernandez (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Raja Manas Macherla (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Emily S. Lerner (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Arlo C. Eitzer (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ben J. Groelke (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and systems for determining when to accelerate, decelerate, or maintain current speed of cruise control based on the blindspots of vehicles. Distances between a vehic...