ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,174, issued on April 14, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Pneumatic vehicle tyre with circumferential channel" was invented by Wilke Eikermann (Hannover, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic vehicle tire having a tread with profiling and at least one circumferential groove which runs in encircling fashion in the circumferential direction and is formed to a profile depth. At least over part of the circumference the groove has a cross section perpendicularly to the circumferential direction made up of at least two groove portions adjoining one another in a radial direction. A firs...