ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,719, issued on June 17, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Steering system" was invented by Yusuke Kakimoto (Okazaki, Japan), Takashi Kodera (Okazaki, Japan), Kenji Shibata (Nagoya, Japan) and Takafumi Sato (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering system includes a steering operation shaft in which power transmission to and from a steering wheel is disabled and that steers a steered wheel of a vehicle, a steering operation motor that generates a steering operation force that is a torque applied to the steering operation shaft so as to steer the steered wheel, and a co...