US Patent Issued to PIRELLI TYRE on July 14 for "Method and system for monitoring a status of a tyre" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,916, issued on July 14, was assigned to PIRELLI TYRE S.p.A. (Milan).

"Method and system for monitoring a status of a tyre" was invented by Diego Sabato (Milan), Renan Rodrigues de Mello Ozelo (Milan), Andrea Natta (Milan), Massimiliano Sallusti (Milan) and Dario Scaltritti (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method (200), and related system (100), for monitoring a status of a tyre (99) fitted on a vehicle, the method (200) comprising: -with said vehicle in motion and said tyre in rotation, acquiring (3) a motion signal representative of a motion of a crown portion (31) of the tyre (99), the motion signal temporally corresponding to...