US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding on April 15 for "Providing assist torque in steering systems operating without a torque sensor" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,466, issued on April 15, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Providing assist torque in steering systems operating without a torque sensor" was invented by Tejas M. Varunjikar (Troy, Mich.), Anthony J. Champagne (Saginaw, Mich.), Michael S. Wyciechowski (Grand Blanc, Mich.) and Rangarajan Ramanujam (Saginaw, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technical solutions described herein include a method of controlling an electric power steering system includes determining that one or more hand wheel torque sensors of electric power steering system are not operational and in response generating an assist to...