US Patent Issued to Great Plains Manufacturing on Sept. 9 for "Vehicle steering assembly" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,879, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Great Plains Manufacturing Inc. (Salina, Kan.).

"Vehicle steering assembly" was invented by Jason Carlson (Lindsborg, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle steering assembly for controlling movement of a vehicle having independently rotatable left and right ground-engaging traction elements. The steering assembly comprises a steering handle and a steering controller positioned generally below the steering handle and actuated by movement of the steering handle. The steering handle includes an upright shaft and a laterally-extending crossmember fixed to the top of the upright shaft. A fl...