ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,980, issued on July 8, was assigned to Wheely-Safe Ltd. (Burntwood, Great Britain).
"Tyre pressure monitoring system" was invented by Gary Broadfield (Staffordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for determining whether a vehicle tyre pressure check has been carried out, comprising: receiving from a pressure reader module a request for tyre pressure data indicative of a the pressure of a gas retained within a pneumatic tyre; storing, by a pressure check register, data indicating that the request for tyre pressure data was received; transmitting, by a transmitter to an apparatus, an indication confi...