ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,940, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Jilin University (Changchun, China).
"Dual-mode active rear-wheel steering device based on multi-linkage mechanism" was invented by Junnian Wang (Changchun, China), Shuo Zhuang (Changchun, China), Dongxu Fu (Changchun, China), Zhe Liu (Changchun, China), Zidong Zhou (Changchun, China) and Kefu Zhu (Changchun, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-mode active rear-wheel steering device based on a multi-linkage mechanism, including: a steering angle control motor with a speed-reduction mechanism, a multi-linkage mechanism assembly for converting rotational motion of the steering angle control...