ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,153, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Steering control device and steering control method" was invented by Toshiaki Oya (Sakai, Japan) and Yoshinobu Shimizu (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device is configured to calculate a reaction force command value to reflect a reaction force component calculated based on an operation amount of an operating lever, and generate a control signal based on the reaction force command value. The steering control device is configured to execute a keeping state determination process for determining whether a keeping condition for the operat...