US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for neural-EXPTANH learned tire models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,439, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for neural-EXPTANH learned tire models" was invented by Yan Ming Jonathan Goh (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Franck Djeumou (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to tire models based on neural-ExpTanh parameterization. In one embodiment, a method includes operating a vehicle with a control framework incorporating an ExpTanh function; calculating prior slip data based on measurements obtained by the control framework;...