US Patent Issued to Atieva on Sept. 29 for "System and method for detecting misaligned steering column" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,968, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"System and method for detecting misaligned steering column" was invented by Divyendu Narayan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the center of the rack position of a vehicle including initiating a move rack to first extreme routine, whereby the steering column of a vehicle is turned to its furthest most point in a first direction; initiating a move rack to second extreme routine, whereby the steering column of a vehicle is turned to its furthest most point in a second direction opposite from the first direction; initiati...