US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 21 for "Downhill target speed acceleration control systems and methods" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,970, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Downhill target speed acceleration control systems and methods" was invented by Thomas S. Hawley (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to downhill target speed acceleration control are provided. A powertrain torque control system includes a logic device configured to detect a braking behavior to set a target speed of a vehicle to descend downgrade. The logic device is further configured to activate a downhill speed control of the vehicle ...