US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Feb. 17 for "Vehicle that detects road surface information using contact detectors and contactless detectors" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,390, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle that detects road surface information using contact detectors and contactless detectors" was invented by Fumiya Sato (Tokyo), Yoshinobu Yamazaki (Tokyo), Akihiro Nabeshima (Tokyo), Yoshiyuki Jin (Tokyo), Takeshi Yoneda (Tokyo), Hiroshi Kusano (Tokyo), Keigo Yamada (Tokyo), Takumi Araki (Tokyo) and Shuntaro Miura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a first detector detecting first information related to a condition of a first road surface; a second detector contactlessly detecting second information related to a condition of a second road surfa...