US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding, Continental Automotive Systems on March 17 for "Model predictive brake-to-steer control for automated vehicles" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,907, issued on March 17, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Continental Automotive Systems Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Model predictive brake-to-steer control for automated vehicles" was invented by Michael S. Wyciechowski (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Iulian Ungureanu (Oakland Township, Mich.), Thomas Raste (Oberursel, Germany) and Scott T. Sanford (Swartz Creek, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method using a brake-to-steer model predictive control to providing a limited level of lateral control for self-driving or semi-self-driving vehicles, when a component of a vehicle stee...