US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on Aug. 12 for "Tire wear measuring device and power generating device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,206, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Tire wear measuring device and power generating device" was invented by Yuki Imai (Niigata-ken, Japan), Tokuo Nakamura (Niigata-ken, Japan), Takafumi Noguchi (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Hiroyuki Tobari (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Shinya Ichise (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Ryosuke Suzuki (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Rie Kurosawa (Niigata-ken, Japan), Heishiro Fudo (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Eiji Shinohara (Niigata-ken, Japan), Manabu Tamura (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Nobuhiko Suematsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire wear measuring device that detects wear of a tire based on a magnetic field...