US Patent Issued to SUBARU on March 11 for "Estimation apparatus and vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,925, issued on March 11, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Estimation apparatus and vehicle" was invented by Fumiya Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation apparatus performs non-contact estimation of a friction coefficient of a road surface. The estimation apparatus includes at least one processor. The processor determines a state of the road surface and determine which of preset road-surface states the state of the road surface belongs to. The processor performs primary identification of a first range of a friction coefficient corresponding to the determined road-surface state on the basis of friction coeffic...