US Patent Issued to JTEKT on Sept. 9 for "Steering system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,880, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Steering system" was invented by Yuuta Kajisawa (Okazaki, Japan), Yuji Fujita (Okazaki, Japan), Kenichi Abe (Okazaki, Japan), Toshihiro Takahashi (Okazaki, Japan), Toshiaki Oya (Sakai, Japan), Yoshinobu Shimizu (Sakai, Japan), Masahiko Sakamaki (Yao, Japan), Shintaro Takayama (Toyota, Japan), Yosuke Yamashita (Toyota, Japan) and Masaharu Yamashita (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering system is configured such that electric power is supplied to a steering actuator and a turning actuator from a first power supply when a power state of a vehicle i...