ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,960, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Steering control device" was invented by Yosuke Yamashita (Nagoya, Japan), Masaharu Yamashita (Toyota, Japan), Kenji Shibata (Nagoya, Japan), Koichi Nishimura (Toyota, Japan), Takahito Ishino (Numazu, Japan), Toru Takashima (Susono, Japan), Shintaro Takayama (Toyota, Japan), Yuji Fujita (Okazaki, Japan), Koji Anraku (Okazaki, Japan) and Kenichi Abe (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering control device is configured to control a steering device that changes a transmission ratio between an operation angle of an...