ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,914, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for influencing and/or operating a steering system, and steering system, in particular for a vehicle" was invented by Michael Sprinzl (Suessen, Germany), Stefan Kanngiesser (Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany), Tobias Neulen (Baesweiler, Germany) and David Antonio Arriola Gutierrez (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for influencing and/or operating a steering system, in particular a steer-by-wire steering system. In the method, a setpoint for an operating element actuator is determined independently of a setpoint fo...