ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,608, issued on March 31, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Motor unit and vehicle steering device" was invented by Yusuke Natsume (Okazaki, Japan), Nobuyasu Saji (Okazaki, Japan), Kosuke Tsukahara (Okazaki, Japan), Kenichi Fukunaga (Okazaki, Japan) and Takaya Tanikawa (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor attaching structure, a motor unit, and a vehicle steering device, capable of suppressing vibrations generated by a motor from being conveyed to an attachment-receiving object, while maintaining support rigidity regarding the motor by attaching a motor case to an attachment-receiving object by a fasten...