ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,798, issued on March 31, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Steering computing 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 steering computing device that calculates a value of a state variable about a steering apparatus includes a storage device and an execution device. The execution device is configured to execute a bending angle acquisition process and a tilt angle calculation process, and the bending angle acquisition process is a process of acquiring a first bending angle an...