US Patent Issued to RENAULT S.A.S, NISSAN MOTOR on Aug. 12 for "Method for controlling the lateral position of a vehicle on a traffic lane" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,456, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RENAULT S.A.S (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Method for controlling the lateral position of a vehicle on a traffic lane" was invented by Raphael Quilliard (Massy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling the lateral position of a vehicle on a traffic lane includes: a first controlling of the vehicle following a first reference trajectory, alerting the driver if the lateral distance separating the vehicle from the edge of the traffic lane is less than a first threshold, then detecting a command applied to a steering wheel of the...