ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,860, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG (Eschen, Liechtenstein).

"Vehicle steering system" was invented by Yoshinobu Watanabe (Saitama, Japan), Levente Pasztor (Budapest, Hungary) and Adam Szabo (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle steering control system includes a control unit configured to control the steering actuator to achieve the steered angle based on at least one of the steering angle and the steering torque. The control unit executes an output restriction control to restrict an output of the steering actuator when a steering torque is equal t...