US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on Jan. 20 for "State quantity calculation device, control device, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,449, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"State quantity calculation device, control device, and vehicle" was invented by Vaibhav Gupta (Ibaraki, Japan) and Yuichiro Minakuchi (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Realized is a technique of highly accurately calculating a state quantity of a vehicle. An ECU (600) of a vehicle (900) includes a ground contact load calculating section (610), an input quantity calculating section (620), a first state quantity calculating section (630), an observable calculating section (640), a second state quantity calculating section (650), and a damper ECU...