US Patent Issued to TOYO TIRE on March 24 for "Driving evaluation method and recording medium for driving evaluation encoded with a program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,462, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYO TIRE Corp. (Itami, Japan).

"Driving evaluation method and recording medium for driving evaluation encoded with a program" was invented by Hiroshige Hasegawa (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving evaluation method includes acquiring a tire force, calculating a proportion, and calculating an evaluation value. The acquiring of the tire force acquires a tire force generating while a vehicle is running. The calculating of the proportion calculates the proportion value by dividing the tire force acquired by the acquiring of the tire force by a load value. The calculating of th...