ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,910, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Method for operating a steer-by-wire steering system of a motor vehicle, control device, computer program, and steer-by-wire steering system" was invented by Dominik Vogt (Meckenbeuren, Germany) and Ingo Dasch (Grafelfing, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for a steer-by-wire steering system of a motor vehicle, the system having at least one steering function that requests one or more steering angle changes as target steering angles for at least at one vehicle axle. An arbitration unit (AE) weights the steering angle ch...