US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Sept. 30 for "Method for obtaining the distance travelled by a rolling tire" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,810, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Method for obtaining the distance travelled by a rolling tire" was invented by Denis Alff (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining the distance travelled by a tire comprises fixing a sensor, to the right of the crown with a radial position Rc, capable of generating a signal proportional to the acceleration experienced; rolling the tire at a rotation speed W, subject to a load Z; acquiring, after a time T, a first signal Sigi comprising the acceleration amplitude in the direction ...