US Patent Issued to LORD on Oct. 14 for "Compliant shaft-rotor coupling for improved end stop exit" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,391, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LORD Corp. (Cary, N.C.).

"Compliant shaft-rotor coupling for improved end stop exit" was invented by Michael Jarzomski (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steer-by-wire device for controlling a vehicle includes a housing; an input shaft that is rotatable relative to the housing and is configured to receive a rotary input from an operator of the vehicle at a first end of the input shaft, the first end being located external to the housing; a rotor attached to the input shaft at a second, opposite, end of the input shaft, the second end being located internal to the housing; a sensor for...