US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 23 for "Steering wheel actuator apparatus for steer-by-wire steering systems of a vehicle and related methods" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,189, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Steering wheel actuator apparatus for steer-by-wire steering systems of a vehicle and related methods" was invented by Alexander Ein Waldt (Cologne, Germany), Oliver Nehls (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Martin Robert Kopiniok (VettweiB, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example steering wheel actuator device for a steer-by-wire steering system of a vehicle are disclosed herein. An example steering wheel actuator device includes at least one steering wheel angle measuring device to measure a steering wheel angle of a steering wheel, a motor device...