ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,317, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for synchronizing a rotatory position of a steering wheel to an angular position of a road wheel" was invented by Anders Hansson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, it is a method for synchronizing the rotatory position (Beta) of the steering wheel to the angular position (Alpha) of the road wheel comprising, causing at least one of a steering wheel to move into a steering wheel end stop position, wherein a rotatory position (Beta) of the steering wheel end stop position is known, and causing a road wheel t...