US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES on May 6 for "Tire management system, tire management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,336, issued on May 6, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).

"Tire management system, tire management method" was invented by Masaki Teramoto (Kobe, Japan), Kazuharu Tanimura (Kobe, Japan), Takahiro Nishimoto (Kobe, Japan), Kenji Yoneda (Kobe, Japan) and Yukinori Hashimoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire management system (100) includes: a first communication apparatus (2) that acquires state information regarding a state of a tire (11) that is transmitted from an air pressure detection device (12) provided in a vehicle (1) when the vehicle (1) is located in a communication range of a predet...