ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,376, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method and system of quantifying and managing steering command-response latency for an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Trevor Kyle (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of quantifying and managing steering command-response latency for an autonomous vehicle. The system enables the method to determine a lag time between issuing a control command achieving a commanded angle for a plurality of predetermined vehicle velocities. A predetermined number of lag times are averaged for each of the plurality of predet...