ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,985, issued on April 7, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Motor control device" was invented by Syouma Edamoto (Ikoma, Japan), Tsutomu Tamura (Nara, Japan), Robert Fuchs (Nara, Japan) and Mitsuko Yoshida (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control device includes: an assist torque command value generation unit that generates an assist torque command value using steering torque; a manual steering command value generation unit that generates a manual steering command value using the steering torque and the assist torque command value; an integrated angle command value calculation unit that calculates an inte...