ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,806, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Vehicle mass measurement for automated braking" was invented by Yu Ying Yy Wang (Xi'an, China), Ye Wang (Xian, China), Yong Wang (Xi'an, China), Deng Xin Luo (Xian, China), Xiang Yu Yang (Xi'an, China), Zhong Fang Yuan (Xi'an, China) and Wen Wang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "From a set of point data, a set of scattered rays is constructed. From the set of scattered rays, a set of ray slopes is computed. The set of ray slopes is mapped to a corresponding set of trigonometric functions. Using an optimization method, a parameter of th...