US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 15 for "Monitoring device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,985, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Monitoring device" was invented by Kento Iwahori (Nagoya, Japan) and Noritsugu Iwazaki (Sunto-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device monitors a vehicle that travels through unattended operation using an electric motor as a power source, and includes: a selection unit that selects which one of a first method and a second method is used to acquire a speed of the vehicle according to a status about the speed of the vehicle, the first method being a method of acquiring a speed of the vehicle using a detection value from a vehicle speed ...