ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,028, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for estimating rack force of steer by wire system" was invented by Young Hwan Do (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyung Ju Kwon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jeong Min Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hee Kyu Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyun Su Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Eui Nam Jeong (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for estimating a rack force of a steer-by-wire (SBW) system includes a memory configured to store an instruction for estimating a rack force of the SBW system, and a processor configured...