ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,501, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).
"Estimated rack force offset compensation" was invented by Xinfu Xu (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a steering system of a vehicle includes obtaining a plurality of values corresponding to operation of the steering system, determining, based on the plurality of values, an estimated rack force, separately determining a long-term (LT) offset factor of the estimated rack force and a short-term (ST) offset factor of the estimated rack force, determining a total compensation value based on a combination of ...