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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2025
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Bang Kim Cao, Northville, MI (US);
Jonathan Craig Sullivan, Ferndale, MI (US);
Matthew Meyerholtz Johnson, Toledo, OH (US);
David Gon Oh, Canton, MI (US);
Sage Aaron Stubbs, Livonia, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for standstill steering control are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes interface circuitry communicatively coupled to a road wheel actuator (RWA) and a steering torque sensor corresponding to a spring-to-center steering wheel of a vehicle, machine-readable instructions, and at least one processor circuit to be programmed by the machine-readable instructions to determine that the vehicle is moving at or below a threshold speed and a brake of the vehicle is being applied, and maintain, based on the determination, a steering angle of the RWA when a degree of torque applied to the steering torque sensor is less than or equal to a threshold degree of torque.