US Patent Issued to TDK on June 23 for "Devices and methods for sensing tire and road conditions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,939, issued on June 23, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Devices and methods for sensing tire and road conditions" was invented by Ishita Jain (Milpitas, Calif.) and John Sze (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are described for sensing tire, vehicle, and/or surface conditions using tire-mounted sensors. An example tire assembly includes a vehicle tire, a substrate adapted to deform in accordance with deformation of the vehicle tire, and a set of conductive liquid sensors coupled to the vehicle tire via the substrate, where an electrical resistance of the set of conductive liquid sensors ...