US Patent Issued to AICHI STEEL on April 21 for "Vehicle-oriented system and information reading method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,007, issued on April 21, was assigned to AICHI STEEL Corp. (Tokai, Japan).

"Vehicle-oriented system and information reading method" 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: "In a vehicle-oriented system (1) for providing information to a vehicle (5) side by using an information providing area (11) provided on a plane where a vehicle (5) moves, a magnetic distribution indicating the information by a plurality of N-pole magnetic markers (10N) is formed in the information providing area (11), and a sign (100) for identifying a positio...