US Patent Issued to PIRELLI TYRE on Feb. 17 for "Method and system for controlling a vehicle in presence of hydroplaning" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,363, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PIRELLI TYRE S.p.A. (Milan).

"Method and system for controlling a vehicle in presence of hydroplaning" was invented by Marco Rocca (Milan), Federico Roselli (Milan), Stefano Carnier (Milan), Matteo Corno (Milan) and Sergio Matteo Savaresi (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control method and system (99) of a vehicle (1) moving on a road surface, wherein the system comprises a detection module (2) for detecting in real time a respective hydroplaning intensity (HI) for each tyre (3) of the vehicle (1), an actuation device (9) connected to each wheel (7) of the vehicle (1) and a command control...