ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,329, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Lateral controller for autonomous low-g maneuvering using front and rear steering" was invented by Nikolai K. Moshchuk (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.) and SeyedAlireza Kasaiezadeh Mahabadi (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for operating an autonomous vehicle determines a desired path of the autonomous vehicle in a turn, calculates a current trajectory for the vehicle in the turn based on at least a front road wheel angle of a front wheel of the vehicle and a rear road wheel angle of a rear wheel of the vehicle, determines a cr...