US Patent Issued to JTEKT on Sept. 1 for "Steering control device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,699, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Steering control device" was invented by Takashi Kodera (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device operates a motor mechanically connected to an operation member. The motor is a drive source for a plant mounted on a vehicle. The steering control device performs a torque feedback process, an operation process, and a characteristic change process. The torque feedback process includes a process of calculating a manipulated variable for controlling steering torque to target steering torque. The operation process is a process of operating a...