ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,247, issued on July 1, was assigned to Xiamen Yaxon Zhilian Technology Co. Ltd. (Fujian, China).

"Method for controlling following distance based on terrains, terminal device, and storage medium" was invented by Yankai Tu (Fujian, China), Junfang Lai (Fujian, China), Tengyuan Luo (Fujian, China) and Xuhui Ye (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a following distance based on terrains, a terminal device, and a storage medium. The method includes the following steps: S1. dynamically acquiring a slope Theta of a current driving road; S2. calculating a dynamic following di...