ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,993, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).
"Method for reading information contained in an RFID chip embedded in a vehicle tire" was invented by Louis Labrot-Rhodes (Toulouse, France) and Remi Fontugne (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reading information contained in an RFID chip embedded in the mass of a tire of a motor vehicle wheel equipped with a wheel unit forming part of a tire pressure monitoring system, wherein the wheel unit detects, irrespective of the condition of the wheel (whether or not it is punctured), a wheel removal operation and...