ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,843, issued on July 29, was assigned to Airbus Operations Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain), Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany), Airbus Operations (S.A.S.) (Toulouse, France) and Meggitt SA (Villars-sur-Glane, Switzerland).

"Tire pressure monitoring devices" was invented by Andrew Bill (Bristol, Great Britain), Stephan Marwedel (Hamburg, Germany), Christelle Duchossoy (Toulouse, France) and Kevin Stanley-Adams (Villars-sur-Glane, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a configuration procedure for first and second tire pressure monitoring devices. The method includes loading the first tire pressure monit...