US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on Jan. 20 for "Method and system for tire tread pattern image segmentation" (Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,883, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"Method and system for tire tread pattern image segmentation" was invented by Duc Alexandre Fehr (Bascharage, Luxembourg), Frank Petry (Bertrange, Luxembourg) and Uriel Rodrigo Nava Velazco (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a computer-implemented method and a system for automatically segmenting thermal images of a tire's footprint in order to identify components of the tire's tread pattern. The invention relies on a convolutional neural network model and on digital image pre-filtering. It is capable ...