US Patent Issued to SUBARU on June 17 for "Road surface information providing apparatus and vehicle control apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,076, issued on June 17, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Road surface information providing apparatus and vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Takuya Homma (Tokyo) and Tsukasa Mikuni (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road surface information providing apparatus includes an information acquisition unit, a road surface condition estimation unit, a risk map generation unit, and a transmission unit. The information acquisition unit acquires vehicle information from at least one vehicle with a wheel detected as being idling among vehicles that are traveling in a predetermined region, and acquire weather information about...