US Patent Issued to TOPCON POSITIONING SYSTEMS on July 28 for "Vehicle automatic control" (Russian, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,941, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOPCON POSITIONING SYSTEMS INC. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Vehicle automatic control" was invented by Alexey Vladislavovich Zhdanov (Moscow), Anton Ivanovich Stavitskiy (Moscow), Salvatore Iacono (Baldissero Torinese, Italy) and Alexey Vladimirovich Kalmykov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle autosteering system having a controller determines steering commands based on GNSS receiver position data, inertial measurement system data, and steering shaft rotation encoder data. The controller outputs a signal to drive an electric motor that rotates the vehicles steering shaft, changing the s...