ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,723, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYO TIRE Corp. (Itami, Japan).

"Tire maintenance management device and tire maintenance system" was invented by Tetsuo Shimomura (Itami, Japan), Sachiko Nakajima (Itami, Japan), Tadashi Kuwahara (Itami, Japan), Keiko Seki (Itami, Japan), Shugo Mitamura (Itami, Japan), Manabu Morita (Itami, Japan) and Akio Yoshinari (Itami, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire maintenance management device includes a travel environment obtainer and a maintenance timing determiner. The travel environment obtainer obtains a travel environment of a vehicle. The maintenance timing determiner determines a m...