US Patent Issued to AUDI on May 13 for "Motor vehicle having a steering means and method for providing a feedback torque for the steering means" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,902, issued on May 13, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Motor vehicle having a steering means and method for providing a feedback torque for the steering means" was invented by Johannes Agostini (Reichertshofen, Germany) and Shane Cannon (Beilngries, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle having a steering mechanism rotatably mounted around a steering axis, the steering angle of at least one of the wheels of the motor vehicle is changeable. A feedback actuator, and a control unit, and a feedback torque with respect to the steering axis can be applied to the steering mechanism by the feedback actuator. T...