ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,709, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle body management system" was invented by Yoichi Iihoshi (Tokyo), Satoshi Inose (Tokyo), Kouji Fujita (Ibaraki, Japan), Koichiro Ejiri (Tokyo), Kenji Mizutani (Tokyo) and Kenichi Ajima (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing a vehicle body including computing an efficiency value of a monitoring target, the monitoring target being the power train or a part or a subsystem of the power train, on the basis of information about the vehicle body, the information being sensed by a sensor provided to the vehicle body. An output ter...