ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,187, issued on June 23, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Lateral asymmetry mitigation through side dependent understeer coefficient estimation" was invented by Abed Shammaa (Toronto), Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada), Ashraf Abualfellat (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Brandon Cicala (Farmington, Mich.), Hassan Askari (Thornhill, Canada) and Jackson Barry McGrory (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system performs a method for operating a vehicle. The system includes a trajectory planning system for controlling a trajectory of the vehicle and a processor. The processor is configured to det...