US Patent Issued to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for safe controller switching during mode transition for commercial vehicles" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,268, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for safe controller switching during mode transition for commercial vehicles" was invented by Shreyansh Shethia (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Daniel Williams (Thorntown, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for safe controller switching of a steering column of an autonomous vehicle is provided. The method comprises controlling the steering column using a first steering controller, wherein the first steering controller comprises a first fault detector, detecting a fault in the first steering controller using the first fault...