US Patent Issued to ISUZU MOTORS on Sept. 30 for "Steering assist device, steering assist method, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,051, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Steering assist device, steering assist method, and vehicle" was invented by Mitsuhiro Aso (Fujisawa, Japan) and Yuuki Tenma (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This steering assist device including: a detection unit that detects the steering angle of the steering wheel; and an assist unit that varies the driving torque on the basis of an assist torque, wherein while the steering angle is increasing, the assist unit decreases, by an amount equal to the assist torque, the driving torque of a first motor that drives the steering wheel on the ins...