US Patent Issued to SUBARU on June 16 for "Road surface friction coefficient calculation apparatus, vehicle, and road surface friction coefficient calculation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,710, issued on June 16, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Road surface friction coefficient calculation apparatus, vehicle, and road surface friction coefficient calculation method" was invented by Fumiya Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road surface friction coefficient calculation apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes an obtainer and a determiner. The obtainer is configured to acquire n pieces of sensor data periodically obtained by a predetermined sensor during a predetermined period. The determiner is configured to determine a road surface condition in front of the vehicle by making a majority decision on...