ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,206, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Pneumatic vehicle tyre" was invented by Stephan Herbst (Langenhagen, Germany), Fabian Zimmermann (Wennigsen, Germany) and Stefan Rittweger (Garbsen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire with a tread with at least one circumferential groove, which is formed to the profile depth and has a groove base and groove flanks, wherein free-standing webs, which are at a distance from one another in the circumferential direction, are elongate in the circumferential direction and have a top surface ...