US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Methods and apparatus to facilitate a tire change" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,038, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and apparatus to facilitate a tire change" was invented by Elaine Grassel (Brighton, Mich.), Anthony Paul Magagnoli (Dexter, Mich.), Jonathan Michael Tucco (Livonia, Mich.), Dakota Drake Legge (South Lyon, Mich.), Emmanuel Gonzalez (Toluca, Mexico), Taylor Remington (Canton, Mich.) and David Michael Russell (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to facilitate a tire change are disclosed. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least ...