US Patent Issued to Honda Motor, THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA on Dec. 16 for "Steering system for vehicle" (Japanese, Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,098, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG (Eschen, Liechtenstein).

"Steering system for vehicle" was invented by Yosuke Ojima (Tokyo), Munetsugu Hanji (Tokyo) and Bence Bodnar (Kiskunfelegyhaza, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle that can prevent the vehicle from suddenly accelerating in a direction which the drive did not anticipate even when the steering angle of the steering member was changed while the vehicle was parked. When the steered angle deviates from the prescribed relationship to the steering angle (ST2: Ye...