US Patent Issued to TUSIMPLE on May 27 for "Methods and systems for detecting wind speed and direction during driving" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,951, issued on May 27, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems for detecting wind speed and direction during driving" was invented by Xiaoling Han (San Diego), Jianqiu Cao (San Diego), Shuhan Yang (San Diego) and Yijing Li (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, systems and methods related to direct and indirect methods for detecting wind speed and direction during driving. An example method may include estimating, by a processor of a vehicle controller, a speed and a direction of wind movement near the vehicle based on a first sensor output from a wind sensor, or a second sensor outpu...