ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,787, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems for lateral control of a vehicle" was invented by Seyed Amin Alamdari Sajadi (Wuppertal, Germany) and Anand Vijay Kumar (Wuppertal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of a computer implemented method for lateral control of a vehicle include the following operations carried out by computer hardware components: determining a reference steering angle for the vehicle; determining at least one control variable based on a model predictive controller using the reference steering angle; and laterally controlling the veh...