US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on April 1 for "Tire irregular wear detection system and method" (Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,704, issued on April 1, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"Tire irregular wear detection system and method" was invented by Kanwar Bharat Singh (Bofferdange, Luxembourg) and Pieter-Jan Derluyn (Kehlen, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irregular wear detection system for a tire supporting a vehicle includes a sensor unit mounted on the tire. The sensor unit includes a footprint centerline length measurement sensor to measure a centerline length of a footprint of the tire. A processor is in electronic communication with the sensor unit and receives a plurality of measured centerline lengths over ...