ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,062, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tire management device, program, and tire management method" was invented by Shuzo Yanagida (Tokyo), Daisuke Sato (Tokyo), Hiroki Yasuda (Tokyo), Takanori Karube (Tokyo), Shunsuke Sentoku (Tokyo), Tomoaki Miyoshi (Tokyo) and Eri Harada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire management device (10) includes: an information acquisition section (131) that acquires mounted position information indicating a mounted position of a tire on a vehicle (20) and mounted tire information that is information on the state of the tire including internal pressure; a determinatio...