US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Americas on Oct. 28 for "Magnetic drive-over system providing tire tread thickness/depth measurement" (American, Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,154, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Bridgestone Americas Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Magnetic drive-over system providing tire tread thickness/depth measurement" was invented by Michael Stangler (Raleigh, N.C.), Shady Tarek El Bassiouny (New Cairo, Egypt), Steven Noyce (Mebane, N.C.), Aaron Daniel Franklin (Cary, N.C.), David Alan Koester (Burlington, N.C.) and Stephen W. Brooks (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for measuring a tread of a tire can include a nonmagnetic layer, a frame, and a housing. The nonmagnetic layer can provide a drive-over surface adapted to receive the tire thereon including the tread to...