ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,728, issued on June 3, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).
"Water intrusion detection" was invented by Bruce M. Collier (Saginaw, Mich.), Shunqing Yang (Grand Blanc, Mich.) and Stanley J. Iseler (Freeland, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid intrusion detection system includes a controller board, an absorbent material, first electrical contacts, and at least one processor. The controller board is disposed within a housing of an electric power steering unit. The absorbent material is at least partially disposed about a component. The first electrical contacts have first ends disposed on at le...