US Patent Issued to International Wheel & Tire on Feb. 24 for "Robotic cell system for balancing a wheel and tire assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,502, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Wheel & Tire Co. (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

"Robotic cell system for balancing a wheel and tire assembly" was invented by Todd Allen Campbell (LaSalle, Mich.), Daniel Jonathan Ehlke (Detroit), Mohamad Dib Kassem Hassan (Dearborn Heights, Mich.), Erik Lance Kirk McClain (Livonia, Mich.), Harsh Suresh Shah (Royal Oak, Mich.), Jeffrey N. Skomski (Macomb, Mich.), Keith Martin Smiley (Lake Orion, Mich.), Kevin Douglass Smiley (Oxford, Mich.), Mike Smiley (Hazel Park, Mich.), Don Schwenn (Fenton, Mich.) and Patrick W. Zoller (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel and t...