US Patent Issued to PACCAR on March 25 for "Tandem tire wear torque control" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,895, issued on March 25, was assigned to PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Tandem tire wear torque control" was invented by Jordan Michael Houser (Lewisville, Texas), Benjamin Thomas Grover (Tacoma, Wash.) and Charles Wayne Reinhardt Swart (Bellingham, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of automatically distributing powertrain demand between tandem drive axles in a tandem drive axle system for balanced tire wear between the tandem drive axles. Examples described herein analyze input signals collected from various vehicle sensors about operating conditions of the front and back tan...