US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on July 1 for "System for auto-location of tires employing footprint length" (American, Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,049, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"System for auto-location of tires employing footprint length" was invented by Kanwar Bharat Singh (Copley, Ohio) and Sparsh Sharma (Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auto-location system locates a position of a tire. A tire sensor unit is mounted on the tire and measures a length of a footprint of the tire, and electronic memory capacity stores identification information for the tire sensor unit. A vehicle sensor unit is mounted on the vehicle and measures a lateral acceleration and a longitudinal acceleration. A processor is in electronic...