Patent ID: 8610552

Claim:
A vehicle TPMS initialization system, comprising: a pathway along which vehicles of interest pass; a moving TPMS antenna located along said pathway, said TPMS antenna attached to a device that is adapted to track the movement of a vehicle for some distance as the vehicle travels along said pathway, said TPMS antenna adapted to initialize a TPMS sensor associated with a tire of said moving vehicle, said TPMS antenna further adapted to directly or indirectly transmit data received from a TPMS sensor to a central data storage device; a central data storage device for receiving and storing TPMS data transmitted by said moving TPMS antenna; and a downstream device adapted for direct or indirect connection to a vehicle-located controller associated with the vehicle's TPMS, to retrieve stored TPMS data for a given vehicle from said central data storage device, and to write selected TPMS information to said vehicle-loaded controller.