ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,357, issued on Sept. 29.

"Systems and methods for outputting vehicle tire pressure related audible messages" was invented by Syed Amaar Ahmad (Canton, Mich.), Lee Mitchell Tome (Windsor, Canada), Bryan Michael Bolger (Canton, Mich.), John Eric Rollinger (Troy, Mich.) and Jean de Dieu Mutangana (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a detection unit, an exterior speaker system and a processor is disclosed. The detection unit may be configured to detect a tire pressure of each vehicle tire and detect a user presence and a user location in proximity to the vehicle. The exterior speaker system may include a pluralit...