US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 21 for "System and method to prevent lateral control by limiting turning by a steering wheel" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,240, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"System and method to prevent lateral control by limiting turning by a steering wheel" was invented by Manuel Ludwig Kuehner (Mountain View, Calif.), Jaime S. Camhi (Los Gatos, Calif.), Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco) and Daniel J. Brooks (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for implementing steering wheel controls, namely steering wheel rotation locking. In accordance with embodiments of the disclosed technology, a system may comprise a steering wheel rotation locking d...