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Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025

Filed:

May. 11, 2021
Applicants:

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, Llc, Nashville, TN (US);

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Inventors:

Akarsh Prabhakara, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Vaibhav Singh, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Swarun Kumar, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Anthony Rowe, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Terence E. Wei, Copley, OH (US);

Hans R. Dorfi, Akron, OH (US);

Assignees:

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC, Nashville, TN (US);

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 19/00 (2006.01); B60C 11/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60C 19/00 (2013.01); B60C 11/243 (2013.01); B60C 2019/004 (2013.01);
Abstract

Tire sensing systems operable to determine one or more physical characteristics of a tire include millimeter wave transmitting and receiving devices. A processor is communicatively coupled with a memory that includes instructions to transmit and receive a millimeter wave toward and from the tire. Memory also includes instructions to image first and second radial extents of the tire based on the received millimeter wave as well as instructions to determine a dimensional difference between the first and second radial extents of the tire. Vehicles including such tire sensing systems as well as non-transitory machine-readable storage mediums and methods are also included.


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