ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,101, issued on Dec. 16, 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 torque control process includes a process of calculating a manipulated variable for controlling steering torque to target steering torque by using a proportional element and a derivative element according to a difference between the steering torque and the target steering torque. At least one of the two elements, namely the proportional element and the derivative element, includes an enlarging phase controller. The enlarging ...