US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations on April 14 for "System and method for identifying a tire contact length from radial acceleration signals" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,657, issued on April 14, was assigned to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"System and method for identifying a tire contact length from radial acceleration signals" was invented by Thomas Anthony Sams (Hartville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for estimating at least one force acting upon a vehicle-mounted tire. An acceleration waveform (150) of the tire is detected in a tire radial direction from sampled outputs of a tire-mounted acceleration sensor (118). The acceleration waveform is integrated in the tire radial direction to generate a velocity waveform (st...