ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,461, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Steering device" was invented by Kosuke Sakai (Kariya, Japan), Soichiro Iwanaga (Kariya, Japan) and Toshihiro Muraki (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering device including a tube, a moving member, a drive device that moves the moving member in the axial direction, a first fixing member provided on one first member that is either the tube or the moving member, and fixes the tube to the moving member, and a restriction portion on the second member that is the other of the tube or the moving member, is separated from the first fixing member in the ax...