US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Methods and apparatus for standstill steering control" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,509, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and apparatus for standstill steering control" was invented by Bang Kim Cao (Northville, Mich.), Jonathan Craig Sullivan (Ferndale, Mich.), Matthew Meyerholtz Johnson (Toledo, Ohio), David Gon Oh (Canton, Mich.) and Sage Aaron Stubbs (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for standstill steering control are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes interface circuitry communicatively coupled to a road wheel actuator (RWA) and a steering torque sensor corresponding to a spring-to-center steering wheel ...