ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,562, issued on Nov. 4, 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 controls a steering device. The steering device includes a steering shaft, a turning wheel of a vehicle, the turning wheel turning due to rotation of the steering shaft, and a motor rotating the steering shaft. The steering control device includes a processor that executes a traveling environment information acquisition process and a look-ahead compensation process. In...