ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,208, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hyundai Translead (San Diego).

"Thermal monitoring of trailers" was invented by James Sangyoung Oh (Irvine, Calif.), Michael James Proulx (Hampstead, N.H.) and Tong Pil Suh (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monitoring a critical parameter of a trailer and issuing a severity warning including: monitoring the critical parameter to be within one of a plurality of bands and issuing a different level of the severity warning based on which band of the plurality of bands the critical parameter falls into, wherein the critical parameter includes at least one of tire pressure, tire tempe...