ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,293, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Steering system of a vehicle" was invented by Matthias Schoelzel (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering system of a vehicle includes a toothed rack which is connectable to wheels of the vehicle to turn the wheels, a steering drive for displacing the toothed rack with a motor unit and a gear unit where the gear unit is connected to the toothed rack and converts a rotation of the motor unit into a displacement of the toothed rack, and a force transmission element disposed between the motor unit and gear unit. The force transmission element has a cor...