ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,290, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Using stow and rake for road danger mitigation assist" was invented by Juliette M. Rambourg (Lake Orion, Mich.), Zaki Ryne (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Lei Wang (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Farhad Bolourchi (Novi, Mich.), Mitchell G. McDowell (Clare, Mich.) and Kyle F. Middaugh (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a position of a steering wheel of a vehicle includes obtaining vehicle path data indicating a path of the vehicle, obtaining road condition data for roadways along the path of the vehicle, determining, ba...