ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,092, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Steering control device and steering control method" was invented by Toshiaki Oya (Sakai, Japan) and Yoshinobu Shimizu (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device includes: a target steering corresponding value calculation unit that calculates a target steering corresponding value so that the ratio of the amount of change in steered angle to the amount of change in amount of operation of an operating member becomes greater than 1; a control signal generation unit that generates a control signal; and a mode switch unit that switches a cont...