US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on March 18 for "Determining and using path specific rolling resistance data for controlling vehicles" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,375, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"Determining and using path specific rolling resistance data for controlling vehicles" was invented by Ari Tuononen (Espoo, Finland), Arto Niskanen (Espoo, Finland) and Mikko Syrjalahti (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Path specific rolling resistance is determined in a method including: receiving, from a first source, first rolling resistance data of a first set of road surface portions of a corresponding first set of times; receiving, from a second source, second rolling resistance data of a second set of road surface portions of a...