ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,916, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for maneuvering a vehicle" was invented by Kerstin Heuss (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Stefan Kanngiesser (Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany), Daniel Hermes (Recke, Germany), Matthias Schlegel (Sachsenheim, Germany), Stefan Aust (Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany) and Thomas Specker (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is proposed for maneuvering a vehicle. The vehicle has a steer-by-wire steering system having a steering handle and a steering gear actuator for changing a travel direction of the vehicle. In a manual driving operating st...