US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on July 8 for "Loose sensor detection" (Belgian, American, Luxembourger, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,459, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"Loose sensor detection" was invented by Jeffrey McKay West (Uniontown, Ohio), Michel Marguerite Walther Ghislain Constant (Bastogne, Belgium), Peter Jung-min Suh (Stow, Ohio), Dorian Boluix (Thionville, France) and Oliviero Truffo (Imbringen, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are examples for detecting a displacement of a sensor within a tire. A baseline signal strength is compared to a measured signal strength. When a calculated comparison value (e.g., delta standard deviation) meets or exceeds a threshold value, the sensor is dete...