US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations on Feb. 17 for "System, method, and tire aging model for quantifying field usage severity of motor vehicle tires" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,202, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"System, method, and tire aging model for quantifying field usage severity of motor vehicle tires" was invented by David O. Stalnaker (Akron, Ohio) and Robert Palmer (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for monitoring tire aging with respect to a motor vehicle and/or across vehicle fleets. A computing device (e.g., cloud server) is linked to vehicle-mounted data acquisition devices which provide signals corresponding to ambient temperature and contained air temperatures for respective ti...