ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,331, issued on July 1, was assigned to ZF Automotive Germany GmbH (Alfdorf, Germany).

"Method for determining a steering hysteresis requirement, steering system, computer program product and storage medium" was invented by Peter Hambloch (Krefeld, Germany), Andreas Kotz (Duisburg, Germany) and Martin Gebing (Vreden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a steering hysteresis requirement of a steering device of a vehicle, a steering system, a computer program product and a computer-readable storage medium. The steering device is part of a steering system of the vehicle and is ...