US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations on May 6 for "Tire cooling systems as well as vehicles and methods including same" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,286, issued on May 6, was assigned to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Tire cooling systems as well as vehicles and methods including same" was invented by Thomas A. Sams (Hartville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tire cooling systems operatively disposed along a vehicle body adjacent a vehicle tire include a deflector panel displaceable between retracted and deployed positions. In the retracted position, a first nominal volume of air flows along the vehicle tire during operation. In the deployed position, a second nominal volume of air that is greater than the first nominal volume of air is directed...