ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,844, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to PES UNIVERSITY (Bengaluru, India).

"Method and system for automated inflation and deflation of tires in an automobile" was invented by Ananya Mungara (Bengaluru, India), Tarakesh Mogallapalli (Bengaluru, India), Namratha Venkata Reddy (Bengaluru, India) and Manjunath Gangadhar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for inflation and deflation of tires of an automobile is disclosed. The apparatus includes an air pressure source to store the air and a valve bank having a solenoid valve for each tire of the automobile to control the flow of air from the air pressure source bas...