US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on April 21 for "Method for estimating the state of wear of a tire" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,971, issued on April 21, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Method for estimating the state of wear of a tire" was invented by Melaine Guillou (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Xavier Marduel (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating the state of wear of a tire comprises: recording a vibroacoustic signal (1001) produced by the tire running on a road during a time frame; converting the time signal (1001) into a frequency signal (1002) over a frequency range; segmenting the frequency range into frequency bands and associating a datum represent...