ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,100, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for preventing uncontrollable vehicle drift" was invented by Yan Ming Goh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Phung Xuan Nguyen (Mountain View, Calif.), Hanh Nguyen (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Izumi Karino (Morgan Hill, Calif.), James A. Dallas (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Thompson (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and Minoru Brandon Araki (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide for corrective assistance to maintain a stable controllable drift, while permitting a dri...