Pirelli Acquires Fioravanti Licence for Cyber Tyre Development

Pirelli Tyres and Fioravanti have announced plans to work together to develop Pirelli’s patented Cyber Tyre concept. Pirelli Tyres has agreed to acquire the rights to the Fioravanti patent for “a method and system of monitoring the tyre footprints of a motor vehicle, particularly for automatically optimising the behaviour of the motor vehicle.”

The acquisition of the rights to the Fioravanti patent will allow Pirelli to bring the Cyber Tyre products it is currently developing to the market more quickly. The process patented by Fioravanti is designed to contribute to the development of a system capable of transmitting information regarding regulating vehicle dynamics by way of miniaturised electronic sensors using wireless transmission technology. “This feature is vital to the increased performance and safety of future interactive vehicle control systems,” the two companies said in an official statement.

According to the tyre manufacturer, the agreement confirms Pirelli Tyres’ “vocation for technological leadership, enhancing and completing its Cyber Tyre technology with this patent.”

Cyber Tyre is a Pirelli system consisting of a true tyre memory that uses the vehicle’s on-board computer to provide the driver with a series of real time data regarding the operational status of the tyres. All the identifying information relating to the tyre, from its manufacture to its performance in diverse conditions, including deflated use in the case of Run Flat products, are recorded and transmitted to the vehicle.