ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,311, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Motor vehicle and method for steering a motor vehicle" was invented by Benjamin Wuebbolt-Gorbatenko (Erlangen, Germany), Manfred Kraus (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Andreas Wollner (Nuremberg, Germany), Christian Harkort (Erlangen, Germany) and Simon Mersmann (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle (10), in particular an autonomous motor vehicle, includes a steering system (38, 30), a plurality of wheels (18, 20) that can be steered by means of the steering system (28, 30), and wheel housings (24, 26) f...