ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,207, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Method and apparatus for inflation of a vehicle tire" was invented by Daniel Gimeno Ferrer (Valencia, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of inflating a tire of a vehicle includes connecting the vehicle to an external air pump, using a connection, to provide communication of information between the vehicle and the external air pump. The method also includes transmitting information from the vehicle to the external air pump over the connection and controlling the external air pump based upon the communicated information to provide air to...