ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,904, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Vehicle tire area control" was invented by Andras Balint (Gothenburg, Sweden), Ehsan Yasari (Gothenburg, Sweden), Mladen Gibanica (Gothenburg, Sweden), Ellen Petersson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Xin Zhang (Shanghai), Shubhada Paresh Deshmukh (Gothenburg, Sweden), Sissela Magdalena Svard (Gothenburg, Sweden), Bjorn Jesper Boberg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Ruben Almeida Ulisses De Carvalho Fonseca (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems/techniques that facilitate determining suitability of tires for vehicle operation on a road are provided. In various embod...