ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,127, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Steering control device" was invented by Hiroshi Hosono (Toyota, Japan), Terutaka Tamaizumi (Okazaki, Japan), Yuki Inden (Okazaki, Japan) and Saki Takahashi (Seto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device includes a processor that controls, as a target, a steering system including a reaction force motor that applies a steering reaction force to a steering shaft and a turning motor that turns a turning wheel in a state where power transmission from the steering shaft is cut off. The processor executes a r...