ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,417, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"System and method for tire blowout detection using wheel speeds" was invented by Wen-Chiao Lin (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Xinyu Du (Oakland Township, Mich.), Ao Li (Tempe, Ariz.) and Yan Chen (Chandler, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a system performing a method of controlling an operation of the vehicle during a tire blowout. The system includes a vehicle dynamics sensor for detecting a dynamic parameter of the vehicle, tire sensors for detecting wheel speeds of wheels of the vehicle, and a processor. The processor is conf...