ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,768, issued on Oct. 7, 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 an emergency determination unit configured to determine whether or not an emergency exists in which an emergency avoidance operation is to be performed, and a work adjustment unit configured to adjust work of a driver required to steer steered wheels. The work adjustment unit is configured to execute emergency adjustment processing for adjusting the work in accordance wit...