US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for holding a steering wheel in a steer by wire system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,312, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for holding a steering wheel in a steer by wire system" was invented by Raed Nasim Abuaita (Fenton, Mich.) and Brian K. Saylor (South Lyon, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steer by wire includes a steering wheel holding system. An emulator controller receives vehicle data from vehicle systems and determines whether a vehicle is in one of a driving mode and a non-driving mode. When the vehicle is in the driving mode, the emulator controller transmits a command to an emulator switching system to electrically couple the pha...