US Patent Issued to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL on Aug. 26 for "Method for the automated guidance of a vehicle, journey control unit and vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,776, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method for the automated guidance of a vehicle, journey control unit and vehicle" was invented by Klaus Plaehn (Seelze, Germany), Oliver Wulf (Neustadt, Germany) and Jonas Boettcher (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automated guidance of a vehicle along a specified setpoint trajectory at an actual speed, wherein the setpoint trajectory includes geometric trajectory variables, the method including ascertaining an actual deviation of the vehicle from the setpoint trajectory and outputting the ascertained actual deviation...