US Patent Issued to TDK on Nov. 4 for "Devices and methods for overloading protection of piezoelectric material mounted on wheels" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,311, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Devices and methods for overloading protection of piezoelectric material mounted on wheels" was invented by Ryan Griswold (San Jose, Calif.) and Vibhu Vivek (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensor modules mountable on a wheel are described. A sensor module mountable adjacent to a rim of a wheel includes a first set of one or more piezoelectric sensors; and a first elastic support with the first set of one or more piezoelectric sensors coupled thereon so that the first set of one or more piezoelectric sensors are spaced apart from the rim of the wheel. A wheel t...