US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Methods and apparatus to improve electronic power assisted steering in a vehicle" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,884, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and apparatus to improve electronic power assisted steering in a vehicle" was invented by Anand Pradip Naik (Royal Oak, Mich.), Darrel Alan Recker (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Oliver Nehls (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve electronic power assisted steering in a vehicle. An example apparatus includes memory and a processor to execute instructions to determine a steering column torque associated with a steering column of an electronic power assist...