ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,138, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Steering feedback control for vehicle steer-by-wire systems" was invented by Alexander Milne Allan (Howell, Mich.) and Ibrahim A. Badiru (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle steer-by-wire system includes two front wheels of the vehicle, a steering wheel adapted to receive a steering input, and a steer-by-wire module configured to electronically transmit a steering signal to control a steering orientation of the two front wheels according to the steering input received at the steering wheel, sense a feedback parameter of the two fr...