US Patent Issued to JTEKT, JTEKT COLUMN SYSTEMS on April 22 for "Steering column device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,818, issued on April 22, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and JTEKT COLUMN SYSTEMS Corp. (Kosai, Japan).

"Steering column device" was invented by Naofumi Kawamura (Kishiwada, Japan), Hiroaki Suzuki (Toyota, Japan), Tetsuya Ebisu (Shijonawate, Japan), Yuki Fujioka (Kashiba, Japan), Tomonori Sugiura (Yamatokoriyama, Japan), Kosuke Ito (Shiki-gun, Japan), Takahiro Baito (Kosai, Japan), Takao Nakaaki (Kashihara, Japan), Yoshiaki Murakami (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Kazuhisa Asakawa (Shiki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering column device includes a lower tube that is attached to a vehicle body so as to be pivotable ...