ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,172, issued on April 29, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Steering control device" was invented by Yusuke Kakimoto (Okazaki, Japan), Takashi Kodera (Okazaki, Japan) and Yoshio Kudo (Machida, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device includes an electronic control unit configured to calculate a target reaction torque that is a target value of a steering reaction force that is a force against steering input to a steering unit and to control operation of a steering-side motor provided in the steering unit such that a motor torque corresponding to the target reactio...