US Patent Issued to JTEKT, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 14 for "Steering control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,407, issued on April 14, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Steering control device" was invented by Kaishi Monobe (Toyota, Japan), Kenichi Abe (Okazaki, Japan), Yuuta Kajisawa (Okazaki, Japan), Kazuma Hasegawa (Anjo, Japan), Takashi Koudai (Okazaki, Japan), Mika Ikeya (Okazaki, Japan), Masaharu Yamashita (Toyota, Japan), Shintaro Takayama (Toyota, Japan) and Yosuke Yamashita (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device includes a control circuit that controls driving of a reaction force motor that generates steering reaction force that is given to a steer...