US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on March 17 for "Management system and method of pneumatic fender" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,747, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Management system and method of pneumatic fender" was invented by Yusuke Ishibashi (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management system and method that can easily and more stably grasp a condition of an individual pneumatic fender and has excellent maintainability a passive IC tag, a pressure sensor, and a temperature sensor which are activated by a transmission radio wave from a communication unit outside a pneumatic fender in which the passive IC tag integrating the pressure sensor and the temperature sensor is installed. A re...