US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on May 20 for "System and method for tire contact patch optimization" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,267, issued on May 20, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System and method for tire contact patch optimization" was invented by Chidambaram Subramanian (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for using multi-stage machine learning algorithms to optimize tire contact patches on a vehicle. Vehicle sensors first collect vehicle information for the vehicle, and input that data into a first machine learning algorithm. The first machine learning algorithm then outputs a lateral dimension, a longitudinal dimension, and a diagonal dimension, which together ...