US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods to compensate for a steering pinion offset" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,506, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods to compensate for a steering pinion offset" was invented by Jon Zimmerman (Ferndale, Mich.), Meghna Menon (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Mario Anthony Santillo (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including the receipt of a first steering request corresponding to a desired steering angle of a vehicle, the determination of an actual steering angle of the vehicle based on steering data associated with a yaw rate sensor of the vehicle, the comparison of the desired steering angle to the actual steering angle to determin...