Patents by Inventor Alessandro Testa

Alessandro Testa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10231123
    Abstract: A system and a method for communicating over a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connection in a vehicle. The method includes the steps of: establishing a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connection between a mobile device and a BLE system in the vehicle, wherein the establishing step includes receiving first credentials of the mobile device at the BLE system; providing second credentials to the mobile device from the vehicle, wherein the second credentials are different than the first credentials; and receiving a message from the mobile device that is encrypted using the first and second credentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jennifer J. Schussmann, Lynn Saxton, Alessandro Testa, David K. Sayre, Karl B. Leboeuf
  • Patent number: 9701280
    Abstract: A mobile communication system that includes a vehicle and a mobile device is provided. The method pertains to revoking communication control privileges of the mobile device previously authorized to control the vehicle. The method includes the steps of receiving a revocation request at the vehicle via a user interface device, the revocation request including a request to revoke the communication control privileges of the previously authorized mobile device, wherein the control privileges includes a capacity to remotely command at least one of a plurality of vehicle functions; and based on the revocation request, revoking at the vehicle the communication control privileges of the previously authorized mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jennifer J. Schussmann, Karl B. Leboeuf, Lynn Saxton, Alessandro Testa
  • Publication number: 20170164192
    Abstract: A system and a method for communicating over a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connection in a vehicle. The method includes the steps of: establishing a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connection between a mobile device and a BLE system in the vehicle, wherein the establishing step includes receiving first credentials of the mobile device at the BLE system; providing second credentials to the mobile device from the vehicle, wherein the second credentials are different than the first credentials; and receiving a message from the mobile device that is encrypted using the first and second credentials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Jennifer J. SCHUSSMANN, Lynn SAXTON, Alessandro TESTA, David K. SAYRE, Karl B. LEBOEUF
  • Publication number: 20160295005
    Abstract: A mobile communication system that includes a vehicle and a mobile device is provided. The method pertains to revoking communication control privileges of the mobile device previously authorized to control the vehicle. The method includes the steps of receiving a revocation request at the vehicle via a user interface device, the revocation request including a request to revoke the communication control privileges of the previously authorized mobile device, wherein the control privileges includes a capacity to remotely command at least one of a plurality of vehicle functions; and based on the revocation request, revoking at the vehicle the communication control privileges of the previously authorized mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Jennifer J. Schussmann, Karl B. Leboeuf, Lynn Saxton, Alessandro Testa
  • Patent number: 9366256
    Abstract: An oil-lubricated automotive volumetric vacuum pump includes a circumferential pump room wall surrounding a pump room. A rotor comprises a rotor body with an oil receiving cavity and a guiding slot. The rotor body is adjacent to the pump room wall. The rotor rotates inside the pump room. A vane with a vane body and a vane end portion shifts in the guiding slot. The rotor body, the vane, and the circumferential pump room wall define at least two pump chambers. An oil discharge channel with a flow opening in a plane is arranged at the vane end portion of the vane and/or at the guiding slot. The flow opening opens so that oil can flow from a pump chamber through the oil discharge channel to the oil receiving cavity only in a retracted position of the vane end portion during a final compression phase of the respective pump chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Alessandro Testa
  • Publication number: 20150292505
    Abstract: An oil-lubricated automotive volumetric vacuum pump includes a circumferential pump room wall surrounding a pump room. A rotor comprises a rotor body with an oil receiving cavity and a guiding slot. The rotor body is adjacent to the pump room wall. The rotor rotates inside the pump room. A vane with a vane body and a vane end portion shifts in the guiding slot. The rotor body, the vane, and the circumferential pump room wall define at least two pump chambers. An oil discharge channel with a flow opening in a plane is arranged at the vane end portion of the vane and/or at the guiding slot. The flow opening opens so that oil can flow from a pump chamber through the oil discharge channel to the oil receiving cavity only in a retracted position of the vane end portion during a final compression phase of the respective pump chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventor: Alessandro Testa