US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES on May 19 for "Tire state determination system, tire state determination apparatus, tire state determination method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,526, issued on May 19, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).

"Tire state determination system, tire state determination apparatus, tire state determination method, and program" was invented by Masaki Teramoto (Kobe, Japan), Kazuharu Tanimura (Kobe, Japan), Yukinori Hashimoto (Kobe, Japan), Takahiro Nishimoto (Kobe, Japan) and Kenji Yoneda (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire state determination system (100) acquires, from a vehicle (50), state data that includes various types of information that may exert influence on deterioration of a base body portion of a tire (1), and calculates an evaluatio...