ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,705, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Distributed storage and processing of vehicle sensor data, including tire pressure data" was invented by Nicholas Stopher (Novi, Mich.) and Bradley Evans (Northville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include generating analog signals from at least one pressure sensor mounted within a tire; by operation of analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) circuits of the pressure sensor, converting the analog signals into initial tire data; transmitting the initial tire data from the pressure sensor according to a first wireless communication pro...