ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,499, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Prediction of operator input to a steering element" was invented by David Michael Herman (West Bloomfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a computer having a processor coupled to a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to capture an image of an operator positioned in a steering position. The instructions can additionally be to determine, based on parameters extracted from the captured image, a confidence level that output data from a torque sensor represents torque applied by an operator to ...