US Patent Issued to JTEKT, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 1 for "Steering control device and steering control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,341, issued on July 1, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Steering control device and steering control method" was invented by Satoshi Matsuda (Okazaki, Japan), Isao Namikawa (Okazaki, Japan), Koji Anraku (Okazaki, Japan), Tomoyuki Iida (Nisshin, Japan) and Kenji Shibata (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device includes a processor configured to execute a reaction force control process. The reaction force control process includes a reaction force torque calculation process of calculating a reaction force torque operation amount. The reaction force torque...