US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Lane-based vehicle operations" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,917, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Lane-based vehicle operations" was invented by Vladimir Ivanovic (Canton, Mich.), Andreas Ortseifen (Eschweiler, Germany) and Hongtei Eric Tseng (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a vehicle can include a computer having a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor, including instructions to determine a curvature command for a vehicle based on a feedforward control action based on a road curvature, a feedback control action based on at least one of a path offset or a heading offset...