US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on Jan. 27 for "Tire wear condition prediction system, tire wear condition prediction program and tire wear condition prediction method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,386, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tire wear condition prediction system, tire wear condition prediction program and tire wear condition prediction method" was invented by Kenta Nishiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided with a sensor unit; a strain signal acquisition unit configured to acquire a strain signal; an index calculation unit configured to calculate an index of deformation rate; a relation value calculation unit configured to calculate in advance a relation value between the index of the deformation rate and a wear degree of the tire; a wear condition estimation unit-configure...