ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,098, issued on July 29, was assigned to THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG (Eschen, Liechtenstein) and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Steer-by-wire steering system with artificial position hysteresis for steering wheel angle modification" was invented by Yoshinobu Watanabe (Wako, Japan), Munetsugu Hanji (Wako, Japan), Krisztian Domotor (Zalaegerszeg, Hungary), Peter Kakas (Budapest, Hungary), Zoltan Szander (Tarnok, Hungary), Daniel Gyorgy (Budapest, Hungary) and Levente Pasztor (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to control a steer-by-wire steering system of a road vehicle including a steering wheel coupled to a steering ...