US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on March 4 for "Method for estimating the water level on a roadway when a tire is running" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,433, issued on March 4, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Method for estimating the water level on a roadway when a tire is running" was invented by Remi Cote (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Florian Bremond (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a water height on a roadway where a tire of a vehicle is running, the mounted assembly being placed in a wheel arch of the vehicle, comprises the following steps: fixing a sensor onto the vehicle; obtaining a frequency signal from the sensor corresponding to the running of the vehicle at speed V...