ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,507, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Steering control device and steering control method" was invented by Takashi Kodera (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device is configured to perform a torque feedback process, an operation process, and a characteristic change process. The torque feedback process includes a process of calculating a manipulated variable for controlling steering torque to target steering torque by feedback control. The steering torque is torque input to an operation member. The operation process is a process of operating a drive circuit for a motor bas...