US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for rack force effort-based damping for steer-by-wire steering systems" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,150, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for rack force effort-based damping for steer-by-wire steering systems" was invented by Jeffrey R. Meyer (Munger, Mich.) and Joel E. Birsching (Vassar, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for rack force effort-based damping includes: receiving a handwheel velocity signal associated with rotational motion of a handwheel of a vehicle; determining a vehicle speed; identifying, in a rack force look-up table, a rack force value based on the handwheel velocity signal and the vehicle speed; generating a modified rack ...