ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,310, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Steering device and steering method" was invented by Amane Yajima (Kanagawa-ken, Japan), Yoshio Kudo (Machida, Japan), Koji Anraku (Okazaki, Japan), Isao Namikawa (Okazaki, Japan) and Kenji Yoshida (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a reaction torque calculation process, an electronic control unit included in a steer-by-wire steering device is configured to calculate a distributed axial force obtained by distributing an angle axial force and an electric current axial force based on a final distribution ratio. Th...