US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on Aug. 12 for "Tire air pressure monitoring system and tire air pressure monitoring program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,795, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tire air pressure monitoring system and tire air pressure monitoring program" was invented by Hiromitsu Ichikawa (Tokyo) and Hajime Fukumori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire air pressure monitoring system includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires tire air pressure data at each fixed detection period; a storage unit that stores newly acquired air pressure data P(0), and air pressure data P(1) to P(N) acquired 1 to N periods prior to the air pressure data P(0); a determination unit that determines a state in which air pressure has decreased, on the ba...