US Patent Issued to AICHI STEEL on April 14 for "Vehicle system including sensor unit for detecting magnetic marker laid on a road" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,612, issued on April 14, was assigned to AICHI STEEL Corp. (Tokai, Japan).

"Vehicle system including sensor unit for detecting magnetic marker laid on a road" was invented by Michiharu Yamamoto (Tokai, Japan), Tomohiko Nagao (Tokai, Japan) and Hitoshi Aoyama (Tokai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a sensor unit including magnetic sensors for detecting a magnetic marker and non-contact displacement sensors which measure a displacement relative to a road surface where the magnetic marker is laid, a processing circuit which performs detection process for detecting the magnetic marker by processing a magne...