ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,139, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Spat control device" was invented by Kazuya Matsumoto (Kariya, Japan), Shuhei Uchida (Kariya, Japan), Ryota Tachi (Kariya, Japan) and Mamoru Morita (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spat control device controls a spat device that includes a right spat and a left spat for front wheels of a vehicle. The spat control device includes: an acquisition unit acquiring a shape of a road in front of the vehicle; and a control unit adjusting deployment amounts of the spats by controlling drive units of the spat device. When the vehicle travels on a curve, the ri...