US Patent Issued to Volvo Autonomous Solutions on July 22 for "Handling of backlash in a steering house of a vehicle steering system" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,384, issued on July 22, was assigned to Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Handling of backlash in a steering house of a vehicle steering system" was invented by Emil Klintberg (Torslanda, Sweden), Robert Hult (Torslanda, Sweden) and Dandan Ge (Torslanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for compensating for backlash in a steering house of a steering system in a vehicle. A method is performed by a controller of the steering system. The method comprises obtaining a hysteresis model of the backlash in the steering house. The hysteresis model has an inverse. The method comprises obtain...