US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on March 31 for "Method and system for monitoring tire inflation pressure" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,618, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"Method and system for monitoring tire inflation pressure" was invented by Rainer Kremer (Eisenach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a tire inflation pressure method and system. A tire inflation pressure adjustment signal is generated in order to maintain the centerline length of the tire's footprint within a range that allows the good performance of the tire. In embodiments of the invention, a linear relationship between tire inflation pressure, footprint centerline length and vehicle load are exploited to allow for a...