US Patent Issued to Waymo on June 3 for "Steering system fault response for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,176, issued on June 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Steering system fault response for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Justin Zaydel (Mountain View, Calif.), Nolan McPeek-Bechtold (Belmont, Calif.) and James Harris (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode. For instance, a control command identifying a steering control position may be received by a steering system of the vehicle from an autonomous driving control system. Orientation of one or more wheels of the vehicle may be controlled according to the steering cont...