US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on July 1 for "Method and system for detecting swapped tires on a vehicle" (Luxembourger, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,050, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"Method and system for detecting swapped tires on a vehicle" was invented by Dario Torregrossa (Luxemboug Ville, Luxembourg), Oliviero Trufffo (Imbringen, Luxembourg) and Peter Jung-Min Suh (Stow, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method and system for automatically detecting a swap of tires on a vehicle using RSSI levels obtained from tires equipped with transmitters. The obtained RSSI level distributions are used to artificially generate a set of training records, allowing for robust training of a machine learning algorith...