ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,448, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HYDAC NEW TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Sulzbach/Saar, Germany).

"Control device for a hydraulic steering device" was invented by Erhard Bergmann (Banzkow, Germany), Markus De La Motte (Muchow, Germany) and Helmut Funk (Karrenzin, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a control device for a hydraulic steering device, having a control input device and an electrically operable valve for actuating a steering actuator of the steering device, which valve can be electrically actuated as a function of steering setpoint values detected at the control input device via at least one first control path ...