US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations on July 28 for "Methods for retreading tires" (Ohio, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,651, issued on July 28, was assigned to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Methods for retreading tires" was invented by Robert G. Barned (Akron, Ohio), Amy M. Randall (Brentwood, Tenn.), Natalie V. Weingart (Canton, Ohio) and Mindaugas Rackaitis (Hudson, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for retreading a tire, the process comprising the steps of providing a tire casing; providing a cured rubber component having first and second planar surfaces, where the first planar surface includes a tread pattern; providing a cushion gum, wherein the cushion gum is a composition including a functional polyme...