US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES on June 16 for "Estimation apparatus for water film thickness on road surface" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,109, issued on June 16, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).

"Estimation apparatus for water film thickness on road surface" was invented by Kazuma Tokuda (Kobe, Japan), Naoki Morita (Kobe, Japan) and Yusuke Maeda (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation apparatus for a water film thickness on a road surface includes a data acquisition unit and an estimation unit. The data acquisition unit sequentially acquires a data set including driving force data representing a driving force output from a driving source of a vehicle and acceleration data representing a longitudinal acceleration of the ve...