US Patent Issued to THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA, Honda Motor on Dec. 30 for "Power saving mode for steering systems of a motor vehicle" (Hungarian, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,141, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG (Eschen, Liechtenstein) and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Power saving mode for steering systems of a motor vehicle" was invented by Levente Pasztor (Budapest, Hungary), Imre Benyo (Budapest, Hungary), Peter Kakas (Budapest, Hungary), Yosuke Ojima (Wako, Japan), Munetsugu Hanji (Wako, Japan), Hayato Miyakawa (Wako, Japan) and Yoshinobu Watanabe (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for power saving in a steering system of a motor vehicle including a road wheel actuator acting on a rack to turn steerable road wheels and a controller configured or programmed...