US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Feb. 17 for "Tire failure prediction system and tire failure prediction method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,903, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tire failure prediction system and tire failure prediction method" was invented by Hiroshi Iizuka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire failure prediction system includes a setting unit configured to set a predetermined master curve indicating a relationship between a speed of a vehicle on which a tire is mounted and a heat build-up temperature of the tire, a determination unit configured to determine a tire condition of the tire based on a difference between the master curve set by the setting unit and a measured value of the heat build-u...