US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 29 for "Wheel partition assembly configured to modify tire cavity resonance" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,977, issued on April 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Wheel partition assembly configured to modify tire cavity resonance" was invented by Murali K. Konga (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partition assembly configured to be mounted in a tire cavity defined between a wheel and a tire to divide the tire cavity into a plurality of segments, the partition assembly including at least one air line and a plurality of baffles. Each one of the plurality of baffles including: a base configured to be mounted to the wheel, the base defining an air passageway in fluid communication with the at l...