US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for detecting excessive or uneven wear on a brake pad or a rotor of a vehicle" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,842, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for detecting excessive or uneven wear on a brake pad or a rotor of a vehicle" was invented by Katsumi Nagata (Foster City, Calif.) and Masashi Nakagawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting excessive or uneven wear on a brake pad of a vehicle. The system includes a rotor connected to a wheel of the vehicle, a brake pad positioned adjacent to the rotor and configured to contact the rotor to slow down or stop movement of the rotor and the wheel, and a wire mesh dispose...