US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 14 for "Vehicle systems and methods for estimating road wheel angles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,402, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle systems and methods for estimating road wheel angles" was invented by Yubiao Zhang (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Bo Yu (Novi, Mich.) and Jarred James Versical (Commerce Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system for determining a road wheel angle of a vehicle includes sensors configured to detect vehicle parameters including at least a steering rack load on a steering rack of the vehicle, and a control module in communication with the sensors. The control module is configured to calculate a kingpin torque based on the sen...