US Patent Issued to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN on May 20 for "Control system and control method for detection and reaction of a zipper process for a motor vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,489, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Control system and control method for detection and reaction of a zipper process for a motor vehicle" was invented by Stefan Meuresch (Koblenz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system (10) is suitable for use in one's own motor vehicle (12) and is configured and intended to use the environmental data provided to determine a position and a speed of a first motor vehicle (28) which is traveling directly ahead of one's own motor vehicle (12) in a first Lane (36), wherein one's own motor vehicle (12) is in the said lane (36). Further...