ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,762, issued on June 16, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Turning control device" was invented by Shunsuke Tsujii (Okazaki, Japan), Yufeng Lin (Iwata, Japan), Hidenori Itamoto (Tajimi, Japan) and Terutaka Tamaizumi (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turning control device for controlling, as a controlled object, a turning apparatus including a steering wheel, an input shaft, an intermediate shaft, an output shaft, a first Cardan joint, a second Cardan joint, steered wheels, and an assist motor includes a control device. The control device configured to execute: a torque acquisition process of acquiring a det...