ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,560, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan), JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Steer-by-wire steering system" was invented by Takahito Ishino (Numazu, Japan), Masaharu Yamashita (Toyota, Japan), Kenji Shibata (Nagoya, Japan), Yosuke Yamashita (Nagoya, Japan), Shintaro Takayama (Toyota, Japan), Kazuaki Iida (Toyota, Japan), Ryo Yamazaki (Okazaki, Japan), Yuuta Kajisawa (Okazaki, Japan), Kenichi Abe (Okazaki, Japan), Toyohiro Hayashi (Kariya, Japan), Nobuyori Nakajima (Kariya, Japan), Hiroyasu Otake (Kariya, Japan), Kurumi Tazuke (Kariya, Japan) and Hiroki Tomizawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the ...