US Patent Issued to KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge on Sept. 1 for "Method and detection unit for detecting a probability that a steering element of a vehicle is held by a hand of a driver" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,686, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH (Munich).

"Method and detection unit for detecting a probability that a steering element of a vehicle is held by a hand of a driver" was invented by Sven Kirschbaum (Mettmann, Germany), Jens-Hauke Mueller (Velbert-Neviges, Germany) and Ali Karbaschian (Ratingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a probability of a steering element of a vehicle being held by a hand of a driver is disclosed. The method includes a step of reading in a torque signal representing a torque acting on a torque sensor coupled between the steering e...