ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,448, issued on July 14, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Steering control device and method" was invented by Eulgo Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to a steering control device and method. A steering control device may include a communication device configured to receive a steering angle sensing signal from a steering angle sensor installed at a lower part of a rack-pinion gear, a detector configured to detect whether of an inflow of moisture into a steering device based on the steering angle sensing signal and generate moisture detection informati...