ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,096, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Steering reaction force control device, steering reaction force control method, and steering reaction force control system" was invented by Atsushi Hirata (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Yasuhito Nakakuki (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering reaction force control device, a steering reaction force control method, and a steering reaction force control system according to the present invention determine an amount of torque of a steering reaction force imparted by the reaction force actuator and a direction of torque for returning the st...