ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,158, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH (Alfdorf, Germany).

"Cooperative vehicle lateral guidance closed-loop control, computer program product and open-loop control device for a motor vehicle" was invented by Robert Gonschorek (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to closed-loop control methods, a computer program product and an open-loop control device (28) for a motor vehicle (24). The closed-loop control method is configured for the cooperative vehicle lateral guidance of a motor vehicle (24) with respect to a reference trajectory by means of an over...