ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,445, issued on July 14, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for decelerating a servomotor of a steering device" was invented by Michael Friedel (Ruppertshofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for decelerating a servomotor of a steering device. The steering device includes a control unit for controlling the servomotor, monitoring electronics for monitoring a movement of the servomotor, and an energy store. The energy store has a different configuration from a vehicle battery. The method includes activating the energy store by an external force, and monitoring a movement of the servomotor ...