US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 16 for "Mud guard control systems for vehicles and methods of controlling mud guards" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,574, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Mud guard control systems for vehicles and methods of controlling mud guards" was invented by Paxton S. Williams (Milan, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a mud guard control system including a speed sensor configured to provide a signal indicative of speed to a controller. The controller is configured to instruct an actuator to move a mud guard from a stowed configuration to a deployed configuration based on the signal from the speed sensor when the speed...