ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,503, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Aichi-ken, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Steering control device" was invented by Kotaro Okada (Kashiba, Japan) and Kazuki Itazuri (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute a target rudder angle correction process, a restriction process, and a rudder angle control process. The target rudder angle correction process is a process of correcting the value of the target rudder angle variable by a play compensation amount corresponding to a steering direction. The restriction pro...