US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Steer-by-wire system with spring-to-center steering wheel control of a vehicle based on steering wheel torque and/or vehicle yaw rate" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,967, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Steer-by-wire system with spring-to-center steering wheel control of a vehicle based on steering wheel torque and/or vehicle yaw rate" was invented by Bang Kim Cao (Northville, Mich.), Matthew Meyerholtz Johnson (Toledo, Ohio), Jonathan Craig Sullivan (Ferndale, Mich.), David Gon Oh (Canton, Mich.) and Sage Aaron Stubbs (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed example include interface circuitry to obtain a steering wheel torque value corresponding to torque produced via a spring-to-center steering wheel; machine-readable instru...