US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on June 17 for "Method, device, system, and computer program for detecting wheel fastener looseness and computer-readable medium storing computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,708, issued on June 17, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method, device, system, and computer program for detecting wheel fastener looseness and computer-readable medium storing computer program" was invented by Yousuke Michimura (Ageo, Japan), Kan Iida (Ageo, Japan), Noriaki Okimoto (Ageo, Japan) and Daisuke Ito (Ageo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information device including a capturing function uses the capturing function to capture an image of a disc wheel to which a plurality of wheel fasteners are fastened. Then, the information device inspects whether any of the wheel fasteners appearing in t...