ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,552, issued on July 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electric power steering device" was invented by Kyoji Hamamoto (Tokyo), Takashi Kuribayashi (Tokyo), Seigo Murashige (Tokyo), Hirohito Ide (Tokyo), Hideki Imafuku (Tokyo), Ryoto Teranishi (Tokyo), Ryuhei Miyoshi (Tokyo) and Yuki Mano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electric power steering device including: a motor; a drive device that supplies the motor with three-phase alternating current electric power; and a control device that controls the drive device, in which the control device is connected to a first power supply path that supplies pow...