ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,513, issued on March 24, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for monitoring a steering system" was invented by Arnulf Heilig (Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany), Patrick Ebert (Langfurth, Germany) and Michael Friedel (Ruppertshofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for monitoring a steering system during operation in a vehicle. The steering system includes at least one steering actuator. In order to determine a force-closure detachment and/or torque detachment in the steering system, at least one operating signal of the at least one steering actuator is determined and evaluated, and a jerk sig...