Patents Issued the Week of October 6-10

10.13.25

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U.S. Patent No. 12,434,711 entitled “Method and Related System for Estimating the International Roughness Index of a Road Segment” issued October 7, 2025 to Bridgestone Europe NV/SA [BE/BE] of Zaventem, Beligum. Invented by Lorenzo Alleva, Alessandro Boldrini, Manfredi Massimilla, Vittorio Nicolosi and Alberto Nantuono all of Roma, Italy. Abstract: A system and a method for estimating the International Roughness Index (IRI) of a road or road segment includes determining the IRI as a function of physical quantities relating to the motion of a vehicle, for instance the vertical accelerations, and to the vehicle itself, for instance the damping and stiffness coefficients of the suspensions of the vehicle and the tires mounted on the vehicle.

U.S. Patent No. 12,437,638 entitled “Systems and Methods for Adjusting Vehicle Lane” issued October 7, 2025 to Deere & Company of Moline, Illinois. Invented by Scott Bergen of New Canaan, Connecticut. Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems and methods for controlling the lane positions of a plurality of vehicles to reduce roadway wear. At least one controller is configured to receive information regarding a reference that may indicate a lane boundary. The controller determines a lane position offset from the reference, where the offset may be randomly selected or deterministically determined with an algorithm. The at least one controller is further configured to assign the lane position offset to one vehicle of a group of vehicles so that the assigned offset is different from the lane position offsets of the other vehicles. The assignment of different lane position offsets distributes wear across the lane of the roadway.

U.S. Patent No. 12,434,785 entitled “Saddle-Riding Type Rolling Motor Vehicle with a Not-Rolling Front Fairing” issued October 7, 2025 to Piaggio & C. S.P.A. of Pontedera, Italy. Invented by Andrea Raffaelli and Mario Donato Santucci also of Pontedera, Italy. Abstract: A saddle-riding type motor vehicle comprises steerable and rollable front wheels, a drive rolling wheel, an articulated rolling quadrilateral connected to a frame, and a steering assembly pivotably connected to the frame to control the front wheels. A suspension assembly is interposed between the front wheels and the quadrilateral to allow a sussultatory movement of the wheels with respect to the quadrilateral. The latter comprises lower and upper cross-members hinged to the frame to oscillate about rolling median axes parallel and substantially lying on a center plane of the motor vehicle. The articulated rolling quadrilateral further comprises first and second uprights hinged to the cross-members to rotate about further rolling axes parallel to the median rolling axes. A front-end fairing is directly and rigidly connected to one of the cross-members of the articulated roll quadrilateral, and comprises two wheel arch portions arranged above the front wheels.

U.S. Patent No. 12,436,273 entitled “Systems and Methods for Scheduling Radar Scan Patterns in a Vehicular Radar System” issued October 7, 2025 to Deere & Company of Moline, Illinois. Invented by William John Rudnisky of Harbor City, California. Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for controlling a vehicular radar system by selecting a radar scan pattern to be used by the vehicular radar system. The vehicular radar system can generate numerous different radar scan patterns to be used by the radar system to gather additional information about the objects in the environment. The vehicular radar system can incorporate a scheduler to adjudicate between the numerous generated radar scan patterns to determine the radar scan pattern that is implemented by the vehicular radar system. The scheduler can determine the radar scan pattern to be implemented by the vehicular radar system by prioritizing and ranking the different radar scan patterns. The radar scan pattern having the highest priority and ranking can then be implemented by the vehicular radar system.

U.S. Patent No. 12,433,734 entitled “Microstructure Soft Tissue Graft” issued October 7, 2025 to BVW Holding AG of Cham, Switzerland. Invented by Lukas Bluecher of Eurasberg, Germany and Michael Milbocker of Holliston, Massachusetts. Abstract: Soft tissue repair grafts are described comprising an anti-adhesion layer, a structural layer, and a localization layer. These layers may be distinct or integrated into one substrate. The term layer is used to distinguish tissue repair graft functionality rather than distinct material layers. The distinct layers of functionality may comprise a single plane of a substance.

U.S. Patent No. 12,436,200 entitled “Battery Load Test In Agricultural Utility Vehicle” issued October 7, 2025 to Deere & Company of Moline, Illinois. Invented by Sean West and Joseph Boyer both of Cedar Falls, Iowa, Christoper Jensenius of Janesville, Iowa, Shane Boden of Vinton, Iowa and Jeff Lubben of Hudson, Iowa. Abstract: An onboard battery load test system for a utility vehicle. The onboard battery load test system includes a vehicle battery, a primary pump disposed in a fluid circuit and configured to pressurize a fluid in the fluid circuit, a backup pump disposed in the fluid circuit as a redundancy to the primary pump, at least one battery sensor operable to generate a battery sensor signal representative of a condition of the vehicle battery, and a controller operatively coupled with the at least one battery sensor. The controller includes a processor, a memory device operatively coupled with the processor, and battery load test logic stored in the memory device and being executable via the processor to determine health of the vehicle battery by: initiating a current draw on the vehicle battery by the backup pump, receiving the battery sensor signal, and determining the battery health based on the battery sensor signal.