US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on Oct. 6 for "Drive unit for a wheel actuator of a steer-by-wire system for a vehicle, and method for determining the position of the control rod of a wheel actuator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,846, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Drive unit for a wheel actuator of a steer-by-wire system for a vehicle, and method for determining the position of the control rod of a wheel actuator" was invented by Christopher Kreis (Braunschweig, Germany), Wassili Leibel (Schneverdingen, Germany) and Tobias Sachs (Wendeburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit for a steer-by-wire system for a vehicle having a motor for providing a drive power to a control rod of the wheel actuator. A sensor device determines the position of the control rod, wherein the sensor device has a first sensor uni...