US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 22 for "Vehicle steering system and vehicle steering method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,386, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle steering system and vehicle steering method" was invented by Kosuke Akatsuka (Mishima, Japan), Rio Suda (Toyota, Japan) and Yoshio Kudo (Machida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle steering system is applied to a vehicle including wheels including at least turning wheels and includes a steering member, a reaction actuator, a turning device, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: control the turning device based on a target turning angle corresponding to an amount of steering of the steering member; ...