ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,594, issued on Aug. 26.
"Tire pressure monitoring system communication method and system" was invented by Jochen Schubert (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Dilip B. Patel (Novi, Mich.) and Arick Evan Rushing (Ypsilanti, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to facilitate secure communication between a first tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) and a vehicle is disclosed. The method may include obtaining a trigger signal to auto-locate the first TPMS from a plurality of TPMSs. The method may further include obtaining learning mode advertisements from each TPMS responsive to obtaining the trigger signal. The learning mode advertisem...