ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,725, issued on June 17, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Steer-by-wire steering apparatus" was invented by Atsushi Hirata (Hitachinaka, Japan), Yasuhito Nakakuki (Hitachinaka, Japan), Tsukasa Miyajima (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Huajun Liu (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steer-by-wire steering apparatus according to the present invention includes: a reaction force actuator control section that controls an output amount of a reaction force actuator; a steering actuator control section that controls a steering actuator in response to a manipulation of a steering operation input member, the st...