US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE on April 21 for "Automated control architecture that handles both grip driving and sliding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,172, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Automated control architecture that handles both grip driving and sliding" was invented by Avinash Balachandran (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yan Ming Jonathan Goh (Palo Alto, Calif.), John Subosits (Menlo Park, Calif.), Michael Thompson (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and Alexander R. Green (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of autonomously controlling a vehicle across the grip driving and drift driving operating ranges, are provided. The contemplated autonomous control can be effectuated using a closed-loop cont...