ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,267, issued on March 24, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tire state monitoring system and tire state monitoring method" was invented by Hiromitsu Ichikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire state monitoring system comprises an acquisition device and a control device. The acquisition device is configured to repeatedly acquire a pressure and temperature inside a tire. The control device is configured to: calculate, based on ratios between the pressure and temperature acquired in a first period, a representative value of the ratios in the first period; and compare a ratio between the pressure and temperature acqui...