ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,744, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Risk calculating device, method, and program" was invented by Takenori Sannomiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data acquiring section acquires external damage information per tire mounted to airplanes, and site information relating to sites at which there is possibility that the tires incurred external damage. A processing section calculates risk, per site, of tires incurring external damage based on the external damage information per tire and the site information, An outputting section outputs the risk that has been calculated per site."

The patent was fil...