ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,964, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Motor control device" was invented by Naoki Shoji (Shiki-gun, Japan), Hidenori Itamoto (Tajima, Japan), Terutaka Tamaizumi (Okazaki, Japan), Hiromasa Tamaki (Okazaki, Japan), Shingo Nitta (Anjo, Japan), Xin Zhou (Kiyosu, Japan) and Shunsuke Tsujii (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control device includes a manual steering command value generation unit that generates a manual steering command value, and a hands-on/off determination unit that determines whether a driver is in a gripping state in which the driver is gripping a steering wheel or in a...