US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 14 for "Vehicle steering modes" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,456, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle steering modes" was invented by Rahul Reddy Nagavally (Dearborn, Mich.), Ajinkya Joshi (Dearborn Heights, Mich.), Souri Gadepalli (Dearborn, Mich.), Kevin Wegienka (Novi, Mich.), Mengxiong Wan (Troy, Mich.) and Shane Larkin (Berkley, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a computer including a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to determine a steering torque of a vehicle and to select one of a hands-on mode or a hands-free mode for operating the vehicle along a portion of the roadway b...