US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on Oct. 6 for "Compensating footprint length for inflation pressure changes" (Luxembourger, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,577, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"Compensating footprint length for inflation pressure changes" was invented by Roman Son (Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg) and Kanwar Bharat Singh (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for compensating footprint length for inflation pressure changes in tires. Various embodiment can receive a tire pressure measurement for a tire and an uncompensated footprint length for the tire. Various embodiments can calculate an inflation difference between the tire pressure measurement and a target tire pressure for the tire. Then, ...