US Patent Issued to NEC on June 10 for "Vehicle weight estimation apparatus, vehicle weight estimation method, and computer readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,356, issued on June 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle weight estimation apparatus, vehicle weight estimation method, and computer readable recording medium" was invented by Shohei Kinoshita (Tokyo), Murtuza Petladwala (Tokyo), Shigeru Kasai (Tokyo) and Eisuke Saneyoshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle weight estimation apparatus 10 includes: a collecting unit 11 that collects vibration information indicating vibration output from a sensor 25 installed to a structure having a vibration-generating structure that generates vibration upon passage of a vehicle 30; an axle response extracting unit 12 that detec...