ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,706, issued on May 27, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Tyre monitor" was invented by Andrew Bill (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire monitor 11 includes a sensor device 12 arranged to detect an operating parameter of a tire and a protective housing 14 for the device, the device being retained on a ring 15 having spaced end portions 16a, 16b, the ring being resiliently radially biased. The provision of a retaining ring facilitates installation of the tire monitor within a tire assembly, so that the sensor device can directly monitor the operating parameter of the tire. The pr...