ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,095, issued on July 29, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Steer-by-wire steering apparatus" was invented by Kyung Min Ko (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sang Hee Ahn (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments may provide a steer-by-wire steering apparatus which enables a driver to use a function for controlling an automobile, such as automatic parking, lane keeping, driving assistance according to a road surface condition, steering-vibration damping, or autonomous driving control, to improve the driver's convenience, and allows removal of hydraulic pressure-related compon...