ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,061, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Method and device for controlling the path of a motor vehicle travelling in a traffic lane and associated vehicle" was invented by Joan Davins (Guyancourt, France), Benjamin Le Coq (Saint Pierre de Bailleul, France) and Raphael Quilliard (Guyancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling in real time the path of a motor vehicle travelling in a traffic lane includes detecting a corner in the traffic lane, then, when the vehicle enters the corner, determining first and second quantit...