ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,621, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NOKIAN RENKAAT OYJ (Nokia, Finland).
"Tyre and a method for manufacturing a tyre" was invented by Jari Ojala (Nokia, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tyre includes a body, a tread and an inner surface. Part of the inner surface has a noise-absorbing agent for absorbing tyre noise. The inner surface includes at least one spot free from noise-absorbing agent, provided with a module for wireless data transmission. The tyre includes a sensor arranged in the tread. The module is configured for reading data from the sensor. The module and the sensor are aligned to each other in the tyre. A m...