US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Operation amount acquisition device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,452, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Operation amount acquisition device" was invented by Yotaro Nomoto (Toyota, Japan), Shuji Fujita (Miyoshi, Japan), Takeo Tanabe (Toyota, Japan), Hiroki Eto (Okazaki, Japan), Shohei Funahazama (Toyota, Japan), Takahiro Iwahara (Toyota, Japan) and Keisuke Matsukura (Toyokawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation amount acquisition device in a rear wheel steering system including a steering rod, an actuator, and a control device configured to control a steering angle of a left rear wheel and/or a right rear wheel based on an operation amount of th...