US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 7 for "Vehicle steering assist device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,986, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle steering assist device" was invented by Shintaro Saigo (Nisshin, Japan), Shusaku Sugamoto (Toyota, Japan) and Satoshi Inoue (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle steering assist device in which the steering assist ECU calculates a target steering angle for driving a vehicle along a traveling path, and is vehicle steering assist device that a calculates a target steering guide torque for facilitating the steering angle to become a target steering angle by reducing a return torque for urging the steering wheel to a neutral position in ...