US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Method of maintaining steering angle during wheel float" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,191, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method of maintaining steering angle during wheel float" was invented by Yutaka Aihara (Gotemba, Japan), Chuya Ogawa (Susono, Japan), Takuro Nakamura (Kasugai, Japan), Hiroaki Kawamura (Nagoya, Japan), Shinichiro Noda (Toyota, Japan) and Takahiro Okano (Chiryu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the control of a steering angle of a vehicle during wheel float. A vehicle control device acquires information indicating the yaw angle of the vehicle. The vehicle control device determines whether a wheel floating state in which ...