US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Methods and apparatus to control a torque threshold for hands on/off detection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,060, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and apparatus to control a torque threshold for hands on/off detection" was invented by Quazi Farooqi (Troy, Mich.) and Darrel Alan Recker (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to control a torque threshold for hands on/off detection are disclosed. An example non-transitory machine readable storage medium includes instructions to cause programmable circuitry to at least identify a velocity of a steering rack or an angular velocity associated with a steering wheel, cause a first torque threshold associate...