US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on Dec. 2 for "Feedback control system and steering gear box for final steering control of an autonomous vehicle" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,958, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Feedback control system and steering gear box for final steering control of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Kurt Zech (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control system and method of controlling a vehicle using the steering control system are disclosed. The final steering control system is configured to receive a plurality of critically damped outputs generated by a plurality of critically damped control loops, and generate, based on the plurality of critically damped outputs, a combined critically damped output. A steering gear b...