US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 17 for "Vehicle operation with steering wheel hands-on/off detection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,910, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle operation with steering wheel hands-on/off detection" was invented by Justin Miller (Berkley, Mich.), Alexandra Taylor (Harbor Springs, Mich.) and Ali Hassani (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a computer having a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to, upon actuating movement of a steering element of a vehicle, measure a torque applied to the steering element in a direction opposite the actuated movement. In response to a determination that the torque is ...