ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,858, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Electric power steering device and assisting method thereof" was invented by Kentaro Kasuya (Tokyo), Shuichi Okada (Tokyo) and Naoaki Ikemoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power steering device and an assisting method thereof are provided. A lane recognition unit recognizes lane information of a lane on which a vehicle is travelling. A steering information sensing unit senses steering information. An assisting control unit controls the electric power steering device to execute a steering assisting operation according to a steering assisting amo...