ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,936, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"QM actuators with an ASIL-D domain controller" was invented by Owen K. Tosh (Saginaw, Mich.), William D. Bodeis (Midland, Mich.), Brendan Dziobak (Bay City, Mich.), Joshua D. Kirk (Frankenmuth, Mich.) and Michael R. Story (Bay City, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an actuator in a domain controller architecture in a vehicle includes receiving, at a domain controller, data related to operation of the actuator. The data includes information indicative of outputs of an actuator controller configured to control t...