Patents by Inventor Umberto Schiavi

Umberto Schiavi 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).

  • Method and system for providing assistance to vehicles with damaged wheel components
    Patent number: 7457614
    Abstract: A method for providing assistance to a distressed vehicle having a damaged wheel component includes establishing geographically diverse assistance point facilities and wheel component warehouse facilities, receiving an assistance request regarding the vehicle, identifying an assistance point facility in the vehicle's vicinity, transmitting information and authorization to the assistance point facility, directing the repaired vehicle to visit a dealer, providing dealer authorization to replace the loaner wheel component with a new wheel component, and directing shipment of the loaner wheel component to an assistance point facility. Each facility maintains an inventory of loaner wheel components. Assistance requests include information on vehicle location, vehicle damage, and wheel component requirements. Transmitted information reveals the vehicle location and enables identification of the loaner wheel component corresponding to the vehicle's wheel component requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Pirelli Pneumatici S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giovanni Dasti, Umberto Schiavi
  • Method and system for providing assistance to vehicles with damaged wheel components
    Publication number: 20050075767
    Abstract: A method for providing assistance to a distressed vehicle having a damaged wheel component includes establishing geographically diverse assistance point facilities and wheel component warehouse facilities, receiving an assistance request regarding the vehicle, identifying an assistance point facility in the vehicle's vicinity, transmitting information and authorization to the assistance point facility, directing the repaired vehicle to visit a dealer, providing dealer authorization to replace the loaner wheel component with a new wheel component, and directing shipment of the loaner wheel component to an assistance point facility. Each facility maintains an inventory of loaner wheel components. Assistance requests include information on vehicle location, vehicle damage, and wheel component requirements. Transmitted information reveals the vehicle location and enables identification of the loaner wheel component corresponding to the vehicle's wheel component requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Inventors: Giovanni Dasti, Umberto Schiavi