ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,992, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle steering control device" was invented by Takeshi Hamaguchi (Seto, Japan), Shusaku Sugamoto (Toyota, Japan), Satoshi Handa (Kariya, Japan), Satoshi Inoue (Anjo, Japan) and Shintaro Saigo (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle steering control device includes a control device. The control device is configured to control a steering reaction force to be applied to a steering operation performed by a driver of a driver's vehicle, acquire information on a curved road ahead of the driver's vehicle in a traveling direction, set a guide ste...