ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,030, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Method for operating a hydrostatic vehicle steering system" was invented by Stefan Brocke (Mannheim, Germany), Fabian Hartmann (Nehren, Germany) and Abhijit Hingne (Khamgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a hydrostatic vehicle steering system includes rotationally operating an input shaft via a steering handle, rotary operating a steering dosing valve via an output shaft, the steering dosing valve used for hydraulic actuation of a steering cylinder interacting with steerable vehicle wheels, establishing a releasable rotary connection ...