US Patent Issued to JTEKT on May 20 for "Steering computing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,557, issued on May 20, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Steering computing device" was invented by Shunsuke Tsujii (Okazaki, Japan), Yufeng Lin (Iwata, Japan), Hidenori Itamoto (Tajimi, Japan) and Terutaka Tamaizumi (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering computing device for calculating state quantity of a steering apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute a steering angle variable acquisition process, an output shaft angle variable acquisition process, and a joint angle variable calculation process. The steering angle variable acquisition process is a process of acquiring ...