US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Oct. 6 for "Steering angle error monitoring" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,838, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Steering angle error monitoring" was invented by Benjamin Meier Gatten (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering angle error monitoring system may include a steering ground truth system, an odometry system and a steering controller. The odometry system may include a steering angle sensor and a speed sensor. The steering controller is configured to: determine a steering angle error based on a difference between an estimated turning rate based on signals from the odometry system over a period of time and an actual turning rate based on signals f...