US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding on Dec. 30 for "Torque capability management for passively damped handwheel actuators" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,923, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Torque capability management for passively damped handwheel actuators" was invented by Krishna MPK Namburi (Saginaw, Mich.), Prerit Pramod (Saginaw, Mich.) and Prathima Nuli (Saginaw, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a motor drive with passive damping includes: shorting a set of windings of a motor to define a shorted set of windings; determining a short circuit current in the shorted set of windings; determining, based on the short circuit current in the shorted set of windings, a braking torque for the shorted...