US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Methods and systems for lateral control of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,722, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for lateral control of a vehicle comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: determining a location error of the vehicle; determining an orientation error of the vehicle; determining a cost function based on the location error and the orientation error using a circular transformation; and processing...