ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,153, issued on April 29, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Power steering controller and power steering control method" was invented by Motoya Suzuki (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power steering controller including: a first override determination part that determines whether automatic steering of a vehicle is possible on the basis of a state of the vehicle; a second override determination part that determines whether manual steering of the vehicle is possible on the basis of a state of a driver of the vehicle; and a driving mode switching part that switches between an automatic steering mode for automati...