US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 5 for "Wheel-state obtaining system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,736, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Wheel-state obtaining system" was invented by Hiroaki Kobayashi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel-state obtaining system includes: air pressure sensors each provided for a corresponding one of a plurality of wheels to detect an air pressure of a tire of the wheel; and temperature sensors each provided for a corresponding one of the wheels to detect a temperature of an inside of a tire of the wheel; and a controller. The controller obtains a temperature conversion air pressure, which is the air pressure of each tire when the temperature is a ...