US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, Carnegie Mellon University on July 15 for "Tire sensing systems and methods" (Pennsylvania, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,329, issued on July 15, was assigned to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC (Nashville, Tenn.) and Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Tire sensing systems and methods" was invented by Akarsh Prabhakara (Pittsburgh), Vaibhav Singh (Pittsburgh), Swarun Kumar (Pittsburgh), Anthony Rowe (Pittsburgh), Terence E. Wei (Copley, Ohio) and Hans R. Dorfi (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tire sensing systems operable to determine one or more physical characteristics of a tire include millimeter wave transmitting and receiving devices. A processor is communicatively coupled with a memory that includes instructions to transm...