ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,654, issued on June 17, was assigned to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Mass.), The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Ala.) and Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Optimizing vehicle mobility performance" was invented by Vladimir V. Vantsevich (Worcester, Mass.), David J. Gorsich (Detroit Arsenal, Mich.), Lee Moradi (Worcester, Mass.), Jesse R. Paldan (Worcester, Mass.) and Masood Ghasemi (Worcester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of optimizing vehicle mobility performance includes receiving technical parameters for each wheel associated with wheel ...