US Patent Issued to JTEKT, J-QuAD DYNAMICS on April 21 for "Control device for combination vehicle, control method for combination vehicle, and control program for combination vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,242, issued on April 21, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC. (Tokyo).

"Control device for combination vehicle, control method for combination vehicle, and control program for combination vehicle" was invented by Terutaka Tamaizumi (Okazaki, Japan) and Hirotaka Tokoro (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device is applied to a combination vehicle including a tractor and a trailer that is towed by the tractor. The control device is configured to perform a hitch angle variable acquisition process, a steered angle variable acquisition process, a virtual steering angle variable calculation proc...