US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 4 for "Limiting a control variable for a motor of an electric power steering system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,538, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Limiting a control variable for a motor of an electric power steering system" was invented by Tobias Bergweiler (Munich), Martin Hell (Dachau, Germany), Peter Korti (Wolfratshausen, Germany), Gareth McKevitt (Munich) and Andreas Sauer (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method limits a control variable for a motor of an electric power steering system for a motor vehicle having automated lateral control. The method receives a setpoint steering angle, determines the control variable in accordance with the setpoint steering angle, receives an actual stee...