ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,278, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Steer by wire type steering apparatus" was invented by Seong Jong Cho (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a sun gear coupled to a steering shaft connected to a steering wheel operated by a driver and rotating in interlocking motion, a planetary gear externally coupled to the sun gear, a ring gear to which the planetary gear is internally coupled, a first support protrusion is provided at one end of the axial direction, and is coupled to and fixed to an inner circumferential surface of ...