US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Bandag on March 17 for "Splice-match builder" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,607, issued on March 17, was assigned to Bridgestone Bandag LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Splice-match builder" was invented by Robert P. Hardy (Muscatine, Iowa), Eric M. Henriksen (Muscatine, Iowa), Aaron M. McCombs (Muscatine, Iowa), Zachary A. Milliron (Muscatine, Iowa), Jeremiah J. Nartker (Muscatine, Iowa), Jeffrey A. Wachtel (Muscatine, Iowa) and Merle R. Schlapkohl (Muscatine, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein, a tire tread cutting apparatus for cutting a length of a tire tread is described. The tire tread cutting apparatus includes a track having a first track end and a second track end downstream of the first ...