ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,288, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Steering assist device" was invented by Yuto Ohashi (Tokyo), Takashi Omikawa (Tokyo), Katsumi Takahashi (Tokyo) and Kouichi Enomoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering assist device that controls steering to keep a vehicle in a lane includes one or more processors, and one or more storage media storing a program executed by the one or more processors. The program includes one or more instructions that cause the one or more processors to execute a control torque calculating process that calculates a steering control torque corresponding to a steering wheel angle...