US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 30 for "Method for inspecting road surface condition, road surface condition inspection device, and road surface condition inspection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,992, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method for inspecting road surface condition, road surface condition inspection device, and road surface condition inspection system" was invented by Yuki Okamoto (Hadano, Japan), Kosuke Futagami (Mishima, Japan), Yoshinori Watanabe (Isehara, Japan), Atsushi Sone (Susono, Japan), Sho Amagai (Susono, Japan), Atsushi Kodama (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Yosuke Hirate (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Taichi Kawanai (Susono, Japan) and Nobuhide Kamata (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inspecting a road surface condition includes the steps of obtaining...