Patent ID: 9446636
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: B60C

Claim Text:
1. A method for obtaining data from a tire pressure monitoring (TPM) sensor, the TPM sensor disposed at a vehicle wheel, the vehicle having a receiver disposed therein, the receiver being physically separate from the TPM sensor, comprising: at a portable tool: requesting and receiving vehicle identification information from a label affixed or attached to a vehicle; based upon the vehicle identification information, determining one or more tire pressure sensor activation/trigger protocols and one or more Recommended Cold Pressures, the protocols effective to wake the TPM sensor from a sleep state to an active state; using the determined one or more tire pressure sensor activation/trigger protocols to activate one or more tire pressure monitoring (TPM) sensors at the vehicle; responsively receiving tire pressure information from the activated TPM sensors; determining by a controller of the portable tool whether the tire pressure information falls below any of the one or more of the Recommended Cold Pressures; wherein the tool interacts exclusively with the tire pressure monitor sensor and not the receiver of the vehicle.