ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,474, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for influencing a stiffness behavior of a vehicle assembly of a vehicle" was invented by Christian Riese (Stuttgart, Germany), Matthias Ehrmann (Neuhausen, Germany), Thomas Kurz (Roemerberg, Germany) and Tobias Ritz (Leonberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for influencing a stiffness behavior of a vehicle assembly of a vehicle includes changing a wheel steering angle of at least one vehicle wheel of the vehicle using at least one wheel steering angle controller of a steering system of the vehicle, and reducing a stiffness of the ...