US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Dec. 16 for "Collaborative steering in steer-by-wire systems for automated driving" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,094, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Collaborative steering in steer-by-wire systems for automated driving" was invented by Kin Man Michael Wong (Thornhill, Canada), Ben MacCallum (Toronto), Puneet Bagga (Etobicoke, Canada), Parisa Mahvelatishamsabadi (North York, Canada) and Reza Zarringhalam (Whitby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for collaborative steering in steer-by-wire (SBW) vehicles includes sensors, a rack motor altering a position of the vehicle's steerable road wheels and an emulator altering a torque and position of a vehicle hand wheel. A collaborative st...