ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,841, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for predicting road wheel angles" was invented by Ami Woo (Calgary, Canada), Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada), Khizar Ahmad Qureshi (Pickering, Canada) and Hassan Askari (Thornhill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination is made whether a driver torque, a road wheel angle (RWA), a yaw rate, and a heading are in a steady state, a difference in velocities of left and right rear wheels is less than a rear velocity threshold, and a difference in velocities of left and right front wheels is less than a front velo...