ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,498, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NSK STEERING & CONTROL INC. (Tokyo).
"Turning control device and turning device" was invented by Atsushi Iwatani (Maebashi, Japan), Tetsuya Kitazume (Maebashi, Japan) and Shoya Maruyama (Maebashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turning control device includes: a terminal position learning unit configured to learn a terminal position of the turning mechanism, based on a steered position of a turning mechanism detected by the position detection unit; and a relearning determination unit configured to determine necessity of relearning of the terminal position. The relearning determination u...