ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,419, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to INVENTUS Engineering GmbH (St. Anton i.M., Austria).

"Steering input device for specifying a steering movement according to the steer-by-wire concept and method for operating a steering input device" was invented by Stefan Battlogg (St. Anton i.M., Austria) and Philipp Donz (Silbertal, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering input device for controlling a vehicle according to the steer-by-wire concept. A power train has a moveable steering unit and a drive device with a drive motor for generating a torque acting on the steering unit. The power train also has a controllable magnetorheo...