ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,402, issued on April 14, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea).

"Steering control device and method for vehicle" was invented by MyungSeob Son (Suwon-si, South Korea) and HyunSik Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a vehicle steering control device and method. There may be provided a vehicle steering control device and method that may detect a slip state of the steering wheel according to the driving state when misalignment occurs between the steering angle of the steering wheel and the rotation angle of the steering motor and performs control to release the slip sta...