US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on May 12 for "Tire management apparatus, program and tire management method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,035, issued on May 12, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tire management apparatus, program and tire management method" was invented by Hiroyuki Katsuno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire management apparatus (10) for managing tires attached to a mining vehicle having a dual wheel includes a data acquisition interface (131) configured to acquire driving data on the mining vehicle, a wear state calculator (132) configured to define two or more calculation positions in one tire and calculate a wear state of the one tire at each defined calculation position based on the acquired driving data, and a wear state correcto...