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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2015
Roger Tracy, Chicago, IL (US);
Cesare Santanera, Turin, IT;
Roger Tracy, Chicago, IL (US);
Cesare Santanera, Turin, IT;
Other;
Abstract
A tire code reader scans an automobile tire to capture an image of the tire code molded on the tire sidewall and associates it with the vehicle identification number (VIN) read by a bar code scanner also on the reader. Both tire code and VIN are uploaded to a control server and then to a cloud-based server that is programmed with optical character recognition software for reading the tire code and for accessing databases for information about that tire, such as re-call information, and the make, model and year of the automobile. The cloud-based server transmits a report back to the control server for printing a full report by a printer and to the tire code reader for display of the tire code.