ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,429, issued on May 5, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Road surface contact avoidance system" was invented by Hideaki Kato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road surface contact avoidance system includes a server apparatus and vehicles communicably coupled to the server apparatus via a network. The vehicles each include a road surface contact detector detecting contact between a bottom portion of a corresponding one of the vehicles and a road surface, a contact information transmitter transmitting contact information to the server apparatus, a contact determiner determining whether a possibility of the contact between the b...