US Patent Issued to DENSO on March 18 for "Road surface state determination device and tire system including same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,132, issued on March 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Road surface state determination device and tire system including same" was invented by Yoichiro Suzuki (Nisshin, Japan), Nobuya Watabe (Kariya, Japan), Masashi Mori (Kariya, Japan) and Takatoshi Sekizawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road surface state determination device includes a tire-side device and a vehicle-body-side system. The tire-side device is attached to each of a plurality of tires included in a vehicle. The vehicle-body-side system is included in a body of the vehicle. The tire-side device may output a detection signal correspond...