ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,180, issued on April 14, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain), AIRBUS OPERATIONS GmbH (Hamburg, Germany), AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.) (Toulouse, France), MEGGITT SA (Villars-sur-Glane, Switzerland) and AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GmbH (Taufkirchen, Germany).

"Method of configuring a network of tire monitoring devices" was invented by Andrew Bill (Bristol, Great Britain), Stephan Marwedel (Hamburg, Germany), Christelle Duchossoy (Toulouse, France), Erik-Oliver Blass (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Kevin Stanley-Adams (Villars-sur-Glane, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of configuring a network of ...