ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,371, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Motor control device" was invented by Naoki Shoji (Shiki-gun, Japan), Mitsuko Yoshida (Nara, Japan) and Robert Fuchs (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control unit includes: an assist torque command value generation unit that generates an assist torque command value using steering torque; a manual steering command value generation unit that generates a manual steering command value using the steering torque and the assist torque command value; an integrated angle command value calculation unit that calculates an integrated angle command value by add...