US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 3 for "Correction device, steering holding determination device, and correction method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,311, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Correction device, steering holding determination device, and correction method" was invented by Hiroto Katsuda (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve the accuracy of a torque sensor value, provided is a correction device for the steering torque sensor, comprising a traveling state determination unit determines whether or not, during activation of a lane trace assist control, the vehicle is in a specific traveling state, an operation state determination unit determines whether or not a driver is in a specific operation state, an estimatio...