US Patent Issued to HL MANDO on July 15 for "Method and apparatus for controlling electronic power steering system" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,551, issued on July 15, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for controlling electronic power steering system" was invented by Hoseok Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present disclosure, the method and apparatus for controlling an electronic power steering system include estimating a vehicle's rack force value when the vehicle's cumulative driving distance is greater than or equal to a reference driving distance, comparing the estimated rack force value with learning data, increasing the number of friction detections when the estimated rack force value is grea...