US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 23 for "Road surface evaluation apparatus and road surface evaluation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,676, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Road surface evaluation apparatus and road surface evaluation method" was invented by Atsuki Kakinuma (Tokyo), Akira Iihoshi (Tokyo), Yasuo Oishi (Tokyo), Takeo Tokunaga (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Onimaru (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road surface evaluation apparatus including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform acquiring driving information (including information indicating a motion of a vehicle while driving and position information of the vehicle, map information including information on a road on which the vehicle is traveling,...