ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,008, issued on July 29, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

"Control method for controlling the lateral movement of a motor vehicle" was invented by David Gonzalez Bautista (Saint Cyr l'ecole, France), Vicente Milanes (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) and Francisco Martin Navas Matos (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for controlling the lateral movement of a motor vehicle including a steering structure for following a predetermined trajectory on a road. The control method includes selecting at least one environmental parameter external to the motor vehicle. The selection of the environmenta...