ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,123, issued on April 29, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Estimation device" was invented by Kensuke Ueda (Kariya, Japan) and Takuto Suzuki (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation device is provided with a braking-driving force acquiring unit that acquires, based on a signal from a sensor that detects a force, braking-driving force information as information indicating a braking force or a driving force applied to wheels of the vehicle; a wheel load acquiring unit that acquires, based on the braking-driving force information, a wheel load received by the wheels from a road surface; and an estimation un...