ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,800, issued on April 14, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).
"Tire state estimation method" was invented by Mariko Iwata (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method, etc., for estimating uneven tire wear. This tire state estimation method involves: obtaining an image which includes both ends of the tread of a target tire, and captures said tread from the front in a manner such that said tread is continuous in a prescribed direction; inputting the obtained image into a trained first machine learning model; and deriving an output from the trained first machine learning model. Therein, th...