US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on March 31 for "Obstacle avoidance using vehicular active rear steering" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,803, issued on March 31, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Obstacle avoidance using vehicular active rear steering" was invented by Jackson B. McGrory (Toronto), Patrick DiGioacchino (Niagara Falls, Canada), Utkarsh Saini (Pickering, Canada) and Halit Zengin (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for obstacle collision avoidance using vehicular active rear steering is presented. The system and method include determining a front steering angle of a vehicle applied by a driver and an associated rear steering angle of the vehicle configured with active rear steering. Using sens...