ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,786, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Bridgestone Bandag LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).
"Auto skive filling system" was invented by Robert G. Otting (Muscatine, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically filling skived areas on a tire carcass is provided. The method including analyzing, by a computer system, a surface of a tire carcass with a sensor, identifying, by the computer system, a first skived area of the tire carcass, determining, by the computer system, whether to perform a filling operation to fill the first skived area, communicating, by the computer system, the location of the first skived area to a fillin...