US Patent Issued to Trimble on May 13 for "Techniques for controlling autonomous 4WS vehicles" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,905, issued on May 13, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Techniques for controlling autonomous 4WS vehicles" was invented by Joshua Rands (Westminster, Colo.), Justin Creaby (Westminster, Colo.) and Brandon Sights (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and apparatus for determining the heading of a 4WS vehicle. The 4WS vehicle's dynamic pivot point is calculated from the steering angles. A distance between the dynamic pivot point and a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) antenna is determined. A time delay is determined in the form of the distance between the GNSS antenna and...