US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on June 17 for "System for auto-location of tires employing footprint length" (Luxembourger Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,454, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"System for auto-location of tires employing footprint length" was invented by Sparsh Sharma (Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auto-location system includes a first tire sensor unit that measures a footprint length of a first tire. A second tire sensor unit measures a footprint length of a second tire. A vehicle status determination module receives the measured footprint lengths and determines when the vehicle is in a static or cruising state. A mean calculation module receives the measured footprint lengths when the vehicle is in a stat...