ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,203, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

"Device and method for trajectory-dependent vehicle control" was invented by David Gonzalez Bautista (Saint Cyr l'Ecole, France), Vicente Milanes (Guyancourt, France) and Francisco Martin Navas Matos (Vanves, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes a lateral control device. The lateral control device includes: a lateral controller for performing lateral control of the vehicle defined by a set of control parameters, based on minimizing a difference in a control value between a reference trajectory curve and a current t...