ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,000, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Contact state determination apparatus" was invented by Shinya Inoue (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact state determination apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes right and left frame lateral acceleration sensors, a vehicle compartment acceleration sensor, and a contact state determination processor. The contact state determination processor is configured to determine a contact state of the vehicle, based on outputs of the right and left frame lateral acceleration sensors and the vehicle compartment acceleration sensor. The contact state determination...