US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus for determining the condition of a vehicle tire" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,515, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and apparatus for determining the condition of a vehicle tire" was invented by Armand Csordas (Rosenheim, Germany) and Andrea Ficht (Roehrmoos, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a device that is configured to determine a condition of a first tire of a vehicle. At a current point in time the device is also configured to determine, on a basis of pressure measured values with respect to a tire pressure of the first tire at the current point in time and at a preceding point in time, a rate of change of the tire pressure of the f...