ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,863, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for and method of restricting rotation of steering wheel in steer-by-wire system" was invented by Dong Hee Kim (Yongin-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is an apparatus for restricting rotation of a steering wheel in a steer-by-wire system, the apparatus including a steering angle acquisition unit configured to acquire a steering angle; a driver configured to generate reaction force torque, responding to rotation of a steering wheel, through a motor by controlling an inverter of the motor; and a processor configured...