US Patent Issued to HL MANDO on July 15 for "Electric power steering apparatus and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,553, issued on July 15, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea).

"Electric power steering apparatus and method of operating the same" was invented by Dongcheol Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure normally controls steering of a vehicle by each ECU even when failure occurs in an Inter Micro CAN (IMC) network utilized for communication between Electronic Control Units (ECUs) in a redundancy system of electric power steering (EPS), thereby stably controlling the steering and reducing unwieldiness to the driver."

The patent was filed on April 27, 2023, under Application...