ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,835, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Backup for tire-pressure monitoring system" was invented by Adam Merz (New Boston, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to, in response to a speed at which a vehicle is traveling exceeding a vehicle-speed threshold, determine a difference between wheel speeds of different wheels of the vehicle; and, in response to the difference exceeding a difference threshold, output a message indicating low pressure of a tire of one of the wheels."
The...