ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,097, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for monitoring tire tread and recommending a tire rotation service" was invented by Ross Dykstra Pursifull (Dearborn, Mich.) and Matthew Aaron Knych (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring tire tread on a vehicle may include front wheels, rear wheels, a sensor network to determine rolling radius data associated with the front wheels and the rear wheels, processing circuitry which may include a memory unit and may be configured to receive the rolling radius data from the sensor network, and a user in...