US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for automatically ensuring the stability and controllability of a nonlinear control system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,073, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for automatically ensuring the stability and controllability of a nonlinear control system" was invented by Sarah M. Koehler (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew J. Brown (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Francis E. Fearon (San Fransico, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically ensuring the stability and controllability of a nonlinear control system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system receives, at a nonlinear model predictive controller, optimal control problem code representing an optimal control problem ...