US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, JTEKT on Aug. 5 for "Steering system and control method for steering system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,905, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Steering system and control method for steering system" was invented by Kosuke Akatsuka (Susono, Japan), Yoshio Kudo (Machida, Japan), Rio Suda (Toyota, Japan), Isao Namikawa (Okazaki, Japan) and Takashi Kodera (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a steering system including a steering operation mechanism, a second actuator, a steering angle sensor, a steering torque sensor, and a steering operation control device and a control method for the steering system, only a drive assist target steered angle (first target s...