ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,471, issued on June 10, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Steering apparatus" was invented by Makoto Kimura (Hitachinaka, Japan), Yasuhito Nakakuki (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Kohtaro Shiino (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering apparatus includes a first CAN communication line provided between a steering input mechanism and a steering mechanism controller and configured to output a first steering operation amount signal output from a first steering operation amount signal output portion to the steering mechanism controller, and a communication line provided between the steering input mec...