Patent ID: 8380460

Claim:
A method for identifying tire positions of a dual rear tire vehicle having front tires and a pair of dual rear tires, the dual rear tires having an inner rear tire and an outer rear tire, the method comprising: providing a set of tire monitoring modules coupled to each of the tires, and a processing module operatively coupled to the tire monitoring modules, the tire monitoring modules including a pair of front monitoring modules and a set of rear monitoring modules; receiving tire information from the set of monitoring modules, the tire information including tire pressure signals and rotational direction data of each of the tires; identifying the dual rear tires and the front tires based on the received tire information; identifying the dual rear tires located on right side and left side of the vehicle based on the received tire information; and identifying the inner rear tire and the outer rear tire of each of the dual rear tires based on detecting opposite rotational directions of the inner rear tire and the outer rear tire.