US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding on July 14 for "Open loop-style return for steer-by-wire (and closed-loop EPS) applications" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,454, issued on July 14, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Open loop-style return for steer-by-wire (and closed-loop EPS) applications" was invented by Jeffrey R. Meyer (Munger, Mich.) and Joel E. Birsching (Vassar, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for augmenting a return velocity of a handwheel coupled to a steering system of a vehicle includes calculating return-to-center (RtC) torque for the handwheel based on a vehicle speed and a position of the handwheel, calculating a return load value for the handwheel based on the RtC torque, providing the return load value as an input to an e...