US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding on April 21 for "Systems and methods for distributed winding passive damping in a steer by wire handwheel actuator" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,234, issued on April 21, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for distributed winding passive damping in a steer by wire handwheel actuator" was invented by Anik Chowdhury (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Michael J. Bock (Saginaw, Mich.), Shuvajit Das (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Steven J. Collier-Hallman (Frankenmuth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for passive damping in a steer-by-wire handwheel actuator includes selecting a number of windings for a motor of a handwheel actuator; shorting a subset of windings of the number of windings, each winding of the subset of windin...