US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 26 for "Vehicle steering guide torque control apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,140, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle steering guide torque control apparatus" was invented by Shusaku Sugamoto (Toyota, Japan), Satoshi Inoue (Anjo, Japan), Takeshi Hamaguchi (Seto, Japan) and Shintaro Saigo (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit that controls a reaction force actuator that applies steering guide torque to a steering wheel: calculates, based on a curvature of a curve of a travel road in front of a vehicle detected by a camera sensor, a target steering angle for causing the vehicle to travel along the curve; calculates a target steering guide torque...