US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 27 for "Vehicle situation estimation system, vehicle situation estimation method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,332, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle situation estimation system, vehicle situation estimation method, and storage medium" was invented by Shoji Sakamoto (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Kazumi Tsuchiya (Gotemba, Japan), Makoto Matsushita (Ichinomiya, Japan), Takeshi Takemoto (Nagoya, Japan), Shunsuke Sagara (Nisshin, Japan) and Hideaki Shiraishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle situation estimation system includes: a vehicle weather information acquisition unit configured to acquire vehicle weather information on weather around a vehicle from an artificial satellite; a vehicle ...