US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on Aug. 12 for "Steer-by-wire control device and steer-by-wire control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,454, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Steer-by-wire control device and steer-by-wire control method" was invented by Shunsuke Aritomi (Tokyo), Tadaharu Yokota (Hitachinaka, Japan), Yasuhito Nakakuki (Hitachinaka, Japan), Atsushi Hirata (Hitachinaka, Japan), Takahiro Ito (Tokyo) and Kenta Maeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steer-by-wire control device according to the present invention includes a control device that controls a first motor that operates a steering wheel of a vehicle and a second motor that controls steering operation of a wheel. Before making a transition to an automa...