ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,435, issued on July 21, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Kanagawa-ku, Japan).
"Obstacle avoidance method" was invented by Anh-Lam Do (Antony, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method automatically controls a motor vehicle with wheels including at least two steered wheels. The method includes the following steps: the motor vehicle acquiring parameters relating to an obstacle avoidance trajectory, and a computer computing a provisional control instruction for an actuator for braking the steered wheels, based on the parameters and by way of a closed-loop controller. The method...