US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Steering assembly, vehicle and method for determining a steering torque of a steering system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,309, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Steering assembly, vehicle and method for determining a steering torque of a steering system" was invented by Georg Plettner (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Fabian Ruh (Erlangen, Germany) and Dominik Reif (GroBenseebach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a steering assembly for a drive-by-wire steering system of a vehicle having an input means for inputting a steering command, a steering shaft with a first region and a second region longitudinally spaced apart from the first region, and a sensor system for d...