ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,309, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Steering control device" was invented by Kotaro Okada (Kashiba, Japan) and Kazuki Itazuri (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device that controls a steering device, includes a processing unit. The processing unit executes; a target rudder angle variable acquisition process of acquiring a value of a target rudder angle variable, an attention information acquisition process, a target rudder angle correction process of correcting the value of the target rudder angle variable by a play compensation a...