ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,911, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Kanagawa-ku, Japan).

"Method for autonomously driving an actuator of a device" was invented by Anh-Lam Do (Guyancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for autonomously driving an actuator of an automotive device. The actuator is intended to have an influence on the trajectory of the device. The method includes acquiring parameters relating to the trajectory of the device and a computer calculating a setpoint for driving the actuator as a function of the parameters via a controller associated with at least on...