ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,131, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Steering control device" was invented by Motoaki Kataoka (Kariya, Japan), Haruo Suzuki (Kariya, Japan), Katsuya Fujisaki (Kariya, Japan) and Yusuke Otogawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assist control unit calculates an assist torque command based on a steering torque. A steering angle control unit calculates a steering angle control torque command so that a steering angle determined according to an output of a motor follows a target steering angle commanded from a lane keeping support device. A vibration application control unit calculates a lan...