ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,926, issued on April 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle steering system" was invented by Kotaro Nakamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle steering system includes a steering operation member configured to receive a steering operation, a capacitive sensor provided in the steering operation member, a controller configured to determine that a driver is gripping the steering operation member in a case where capacitance of the capacitive sensor is equal to or more than a first threshold and determine that the driver is not gripping the steering operation member in a case where the capacitance of the c...