US Patent Issued to KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge on Feb. 24 for "Method and control unit for operating a steering unit for a commercial vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,170, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH (Munich).

"Method and control unit for operating a steering unit for a commercial vehicle" was invented by Ahmed Saleme (Wuppertal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a steering unit for a commercial vehicle includes a step of transfer or operation of a regulator unit of the steering unit of the commercial vehicle in an inactive operating mode if it is recognized that a driver is not giving a steering requirement and if a vehicle velocity of the commercial vehicle is lower than a predefined threshold value. The method furth...