ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,289, issued on May 6, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Steering control method and steering control device" was invented by Jaewoo Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Donghoon Shin (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The steering control method and steering control device may reduce memory usage by calculating virtual end stop torque without using a lookup table and address the noise issue at a discontinuous point. Further, it is possible to determine whether the end stop start angle needs to be adjusted because the wheel touches the curb, and adjust the end stop start angle to protect the ste...