ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,168, issued on April 29, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG (Eschen, Liechtenstein).
"Steering system for vehicle" was invented by Yosuke Ojima (Tokyo), Munetsugu Hanji (Tokyo), David Kulcsar (Lajosmizse, Hungary), Imre Szepessy (Mauren, Liechtenstein), Laszlo Dombai (Erd, Hungary) and Peter Kakas (Budapest, Hungary).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle, a control unit (16) controls an operation of a steering actuator to cause the steered angle of wheels to be in a prescribed relationship to a steering angle, and an operation of the reaction force actuator ...