ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,761, issued on June 16, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Electric power steering apparatus" was invented by Woong Soo Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power steering apparatus includes: a pinion shaft connected to a steering shaft coupled to a steering wheel, the pinion shaft being configured to transmit an operation of the steering wheel by a driver; a rack bar elongated along a lateral direction of a vehicle, having a first screw recess defined with a predetermined length in a portion of an outer circumferential surface of the rack bar, and including, on one side, a rack...