ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,468, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Steering control device" was invented by Junya Miyake (Okazaki, Japan), Atsushi Ishihara (Sakurai, Japan), Yusuke Kakimoto (Okazaki, Japan), Hidetsugu Toyama (Susono, Japan) and Tomoyuki Iida (Nissin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device calculates a target angle of a shaft that rotates in conjunction with a turning operation of a turning wheel that is isolated from dynamic power transmission with a steering wheel, depending on a steering state of the steering wheel, and executes a feedback control t...