US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 23 for "Method for operating an electromechanical steering assistance device of a vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,859, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for operating an electromechanical steering assistance device of a vehicle" was invented by Christian Koelbl (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method operates an electromechanical steering assistance device of a vehicle. The steering assistance device is operated by a storage battery charged by an electric motor operated as a generator. It is predictively detected that the steering assistance device has, at a future time, a power demand higher than power currently requested for charging the storage battery. Following this detection, a highe...