US Patent Issued to Telecom Italia on May 20 for "Anti-theft alarm device for wheels / tires of vehicles" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,422, issued on May 20, was assigned to Telecom Italia S.p.A. (Milan).

"Anti-theft alarm device for wheels / tires of vehicles" was invented by Gianni Canal (Turin, Italy) and Ivano Salvatore Collotta (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-theft alarm device adapted to be associated to a wheel or a tire of a vehicle is provided. The anti-theft alarm device comprises kinetic sensors configured to detect movements of the wheel or tire where the anti-theft alarm device is installed, and a communication interface configured for communicating over a mobile communication network to transmit data related to the detected movemen...