ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,444, issued on July 14, was assigned to DANA ITALIA S.R.L. (Arco, Italy).

"Systems and methods for an electric steering system" was invented by Idris Poonawala (Pune, India), Sudatta Karmarkar (Pune, India) and Paresh Joshi (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a steer-by-wire system. In one example, a steer-by-wire system comprises an electric motor coupled to a steering axle via a bevel gear set, where a rotor of the electric motor is perpendicular to the steering axle, and the bevel gear set comprises a first bevel gear and a second bevel gear. The steer-by-wire system includes an overloa...