US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES on Jan. 20 for "Wheel load estimation device, method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,590, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).

"Wheel load estimation device, method, and program" was invented by Kazuma Tokuda (Kobe, Japan) and Yusuke Maeda (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel load estimation device includes a wheel speed acquisition unit, a frequency characteristic ratio calculation unit, a load ratio calculation unit, and a wheel load calculation unit. The wheel speed acquisition unit acquires wheel speed information of each wheel included in the vehicle. The frequency characteristic ratio calculation unit calculates a front-to-rear frequency characteristic...