US Patent Issued to Ford Motor on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for calibrating a vehicle steering angle by leveraging a steering pinion angle offset and a wheel alignment funnel" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,455, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for calibrating a vehicle steering angle by leveraging a steering pinion angle offset and a wheel alignment funnel" was invented by Meghna Menon (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mario Anthony Santillo (Canton, Mich.), Gregory P. Linkowski (Dearborn, Mich.) and Krishna Bandi (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for calibrating a vehicle includes a funnel-type wheel alignment system and an infrastructure system. The infrastructure system is configured to autonomously control a movement of the vehicle within the funnel-type wheel alignment ...