US Patent Issued to JTEKT, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 5 for "Steering control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,456, issued on May 5, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Steering control device" was invented by Junya Miyake (Okazaki, Japan), Toru Takashima (Susono, Japan) and Hidetsugu Toyama (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device includes: a target rotation angle calculation circuit that calculates a target rotation angle of a shaft; an offset angle calculation circuit that calculates an offset angle relative to the target rotation angle; a final target rotation angle calculation circuit that calculates a final target rotation angle of the shaft; and a feedback c...