Patent ID: 8115610

Claim:
A tire control system for a vehicle having at least one wheel unit, the wheel unit including a wheel rim and tire mounted to the wheel rim, the control system comprising: at least one tire-based RFID tag mounted to the tire and having a unique tire serial number stored within tag memory accessible to an external reader; at least one vehicle-based RFID tag mounted to the vehicle and having a unique vehicle serial number stored within vehicle tag memory accessible to an external reader; a pass-through portal operatively entered and exited by the vehicle; at least one tire-directed antenna positioned within the portal for operatively receiving at least one data transmission of the unique tire serial number from the tire-based RFID tag; at least one vehicle-directed antenna positioned within the portal for operatively receiving at least one data transmission of the unique vehicle serial number from the vehicle-based RFID tag; at least one tire-directed RFID reader coupled respectively to the tire-directed antenna and the vehicle-directed antenna for operably reading the unique tire serial number data and the unique vehicle serial number data; data processing means coupled to the RFID reader and having within a database a reference vehicle serial number and at least one reference tire serial number assigned to for use by a vehicle assigned the reference vehicle serial number the data processing means operably verifying a correlation identification between the unique vehicle serial number read and the stored reference vehicle serial number, comparing the unique tire serial number read with the reference tire serial number assigned to the reference vehicle serial number, and reporting anomaly discrepancies resulting from the comparison.