ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,656, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).
"Detection of tire radius mismatch" was invented by Brian Richard Morris (Canton, Ohio) and Marjan Moro (Akron, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information from sensors on first and second tires positioned adjacent to each other on a dual wheel hub is obtained and stored in a memory. Also, information about the operation of a vehicle is stored in the memory, where the first and second tires are located on the vehicle. A determination is made as to whether a tire radius difference exists between a first radius of the first tire and a second rad...