ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,798, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GRAMMER AG (Ursensollen, Germany).

"Device for vehicles for carrying out a steering movement" was invented by Jens Kolb (Konigstein, Germany), Iman Bayani (Kummersbruck, Germany), Florian Schneider (Amberg, Germany) and Konstantin Krivenkov (Amberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device for vehicles, in particular fork-lift trucks, the device being designed at least for carrying out a steering movement of the vehicle, the device being arranged on an arm rest of a vehicle seat of the vehicle, wherein the device is at least partially rotatable about a first pivot axis relative to the arm re...