US Patent Issued to DENSO, JTEKT on March 3 for "Rudder system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,258, issued on March 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Rudder system" was invented by Kurumi Tazuke (Kariya, Japan), Hiroki Tomizawa (Kariya, Japan), Hisashi Kameya (Kariya, Japan), Toshimitsu Sakai (Kariya, Japan), Masaharu Yamashita (Toyota, Japan), Kenji Shibata (Nagoya, Japan), Yosuke Yamashita (Nagoya, Japan), Shintaro Takayama (Toyota, Japan), Toshihiro Takahashi (Nishio, Japan), Yuji Fujita (Okazaki, Japan), Kenichi Abe (Okazaki, Japan) and Yugo Nagashima (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steer-by-wire rudder system includes a first system having a first motor unit tha...