US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALES DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on June 30 for "Device for monitoring tires of more than 30 inches via video means" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,409, issued on June 30, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALES DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Device for monitoring tires of more than 30 inches via video means" was invented by Denis Lhospitalier (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Frederic Marques (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring the tires of vehicles transporting excavations in mines, using tire handling equipment, the tires being equipped with radio frequency identification tags and physical parameter sensors, uses a database comprising the identifiers of the vehicles, the identifiers of the tires, the identifiers ...