ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,450, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for cooperative vehicle operation in advanced driver assistance system mode" was invented by Kaiser Xu (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cooperative vehicle operation includes receiving a first target angle signal associated with a handwheel of a vehicle, receiving a second target angle signal associated with an autonomous steering system of the vehicle, and, in response to a determination that a handwheel angle error between the first target angle signal and the second target angle signal is le...