ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,503, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Rotary steering systems" was invented by Joseph Washnock (Canton, Mich.), Jackson E. Barry (Dearborn, Mich.), James Philip Cooper (Milford, Mich.) and Daniel Steven Payne (Southgate, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rotary steering systems are disclosed. An example steering apparatus includes an input shaft including an input gear, an output gear fixed to an output shaft, a pitman arm coupled to the output shaft, the pitman arm to couple to a drag link to turn wheels of a vehicle as the output shaft rotates, an intermediate gear set includi...