US Patent Issued to SUBARU on March 31 for "In-vehicle apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,731, issued on March 31, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"In-vehicle apparatus" was invented by Tomoaki Suzuki (Tokyo) and Kento Matsudo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle apparatus includes a load weight information obtainer, a load information obtainer, an aerodynamic analyzer, a driving stability determiner, a control processor, and a proposer. The load weight information obtainer acquires a load weight of a load placed on a roof rail or a roof carrier of a vehicle. The load information obtainer acquires load information including a size and a shape of the load from image data on the load. The aerodynamic a...