ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,189, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PIRELLI TYRE S.P.A. (Milan).
"Method and apparatus for checking tyres" was invented by Fabio Regoli (Milan), Davide Abramo Conti (Milan), Stefano Monti (Milan), Alessandro Held (Milan) and Lorenzo Roberti (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking tyres includes: arranging, at a checking device, a finished tyre that was moulded in a mould, and providing comparison data inclusive of a drawing of the mould and supplementary data. The method also includes: activating one or more detection devices to obtain a graphic representation of at least one sidewall of the finished tyre; act...