ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,769, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan), DENSO Corp. (Kariya-City, Japan) and J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Yu Sakai (Nagakute, Japan), Takahiro Adachi (Chiryu, Japan) and Takuma Kyo (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes: a reaction device that applies a steering reaction force to a steering operation performed by a driver on a driver's vehicle; and a control device that executes steering reaction force control for controlling a value of the steering reaction force. The control device applies, to a steering operation, a reac...