ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,396, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Steering control device" was invented by Isao Namikawa (Okazaki, Japan), Satoshi Matsuda (Okazaki, Japan), Tomoyuki Iida (Nisshin, Japan), Masaharu Yamashita (Toyota, Japan) and Kenji Shibata (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device includes a first calculator configured to calculate a first axial force, a second calculator, and a third calculator configured to calculate a third axial force. The third calculator is configured to, when a specific situation occurs in which a current of a turning m...