US 7243945

Patent Overview — US 7,243,945 B2

Title: "Weight measuring systems and methods for vehicles"

Patent number: US 7,243,945 B2 (application US 10/733,957; pre-grant publication US 2004/0129478 A1)

Inventors: David S. Breed, Wilbur E. DuVall, Jeffrey L. Morin

Original assignee: Automotive Technologies International Inc. (later listed current assignee: American Vehicular Sciences LLC)

Key dates (as listed, assumptions not legal conclusions):

• Priority date: 1992-05-05; application filed 2003-12-11; granted/published 2007-07-17.
• Legal status listed as "Expired – Fee Related," adjusted expiration 2013-12-23.

Stated subject matter and purpose (per supplied text): The patent concerns weight measuring systems and methods for vehicles. It sits within a family claiming priority from numerous earlier US applications (e.g., US 08/474,783; 08/474,786; and many others into 2003), and it is itself a parent priority for many later filings. The listed prior-art keywords are occupant, vehicle, seat, pat, and sensor. Accordingly, the plain-language scope implied by the supplied text is a vehicle-based weight-measurement arrangement, plainly associated with sensing an occupant's weight in a seat—used, in this family's context, for vehicle occupant sensing and related safety/diagnostic functions. However, the excerpt contains only the bibliographic face of the patent; it includes no claims and no specification text.

Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7243945/en

What the supplied excerpt does not establish:

• It does not establish the actual claims, their scope, or any specific claim limitations.
• It does not establish how the weight measurement is performed, what structures or algorithms are used, or the precise technical purpose beyond the title.
• It does not establish the content, dates, or applicability of any prior art, nor any conclusion on validity or infringement.
• It does not establish the accuracy of the assignee listings, the priority chain, or the legal status; the source expressly labels status and assignee data as assumptions, not legal conclusions.

Litigation, ownership transfers, validity, and prior art were not researched, consistent with instructions.