US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Europe, NV/SA on June 23 for "Method to reduce a vehicle pass-by noise" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,332, issued on June 23, was assigned to Bridgestone Europe, NV/SA (Zaventem, Belgium).

"Method to reduce a vehicle pass-by noise" was invented by Marco Emiliani (Rome), Gaetano Fortunato (Rome) and Vincenzo Ciaravola (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulation method of a vehicle Pass-By Noise (PBN), which method comprises the following steps: (i) providing a tyre model, a vehicle model and one or more sound absorbent material models as inputs to a calculation module; (ii) simulating, by means of the calculation model, a Pass-By noise (PBN) generation profile of one or more rolling tyres based upon the tyre model; (iii) identif...