ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,631, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Vehicle state grasping system" was invented by Tsuyoshi Andou (Toyota, Japan), Takahiro Kamogawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Yosuke Kimura (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "After the air pressure of the tire of the vehicle has decreased to a predetermined abnormal value, the system management server determines that the vehicle has returned to a normal value without performing a tire replacement operation or a tire repair operation (for example, there is a driver that continuously drives the vehicle by replenishing air without performing a tire replace...