US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on Oct. 28 for "System and method for automatic wheel diameter measurement and calibration" (New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,293, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Siemens Mobility Inc (New York).

"System and method for automatic wheel diameter measurement and calibration" was invented by James R. Krietemeyer (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Ervin Vakufac (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatic wheel diameter measurement and calibration comprises one or more sensing device(s) configured to sense rotation of a wheel and provide rotation data of the wheel, a positioning system configured to provide positioning data of a vehicle, a database including milepost and distance data, and a controller configured to automatically calculate a wheel diam...