ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,495, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Turning control device" was invented by Junya Miyake (Okazaki, Japan), Isao Namikawa (Okazaki, Japan), Shunsuke Yoshida (Nisshin, Japan), Yoshio Kudo (Machida, Japan) and Hidetsugu Toyama (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turning control device includes a first processor, a second processor, a third processor, and a fourth processor. The first processor calculates a torque command value based on a difference between a target pinion angle and a pinion angle. The second processor calculates a compensation value co...