US Patent Issued to SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES on April 15 for "Enhanced tracking of tire tread wear" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,280, issued on April 15, was assigned to SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Attleboro, Mass.).

"Enhanced tracking of tire tread wear" was invented by William D. Stewart (Antrim, Great Britain) and Jonathan Wilgar (Carrickfergus, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, systems for enhanced tracking of tire tread wear are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a tire monitoring sensor (TMS) detects a tread wear reporting event, generates tread wear data including at least a rotational time period, and transmits the tread wear data to a vehicle control system (VCS). The rotational time period...