ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,083, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Steer-by-wire steering system" was invented by Tomoyuki Iida (Nisshin, Japan), Yuko Otsuka (Okazaki, Japan), Atsushi Ishihara (Sakurai, Japan) and Junya Miyake (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steer-by-wire steering system includes a controller configured to execute a steering control process and a determining process of determining a converted operation amount by converting an actual wheel steering amount to an operation amount of an operation member based on an inverse of a steering gear ratio. In the dete...