ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,923, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Commercial vehicle tyre" was invented by Andreas Schwenke (Isernhagen, Germany), Florian Kristen (Burgwedel, Germany), Helge Rother (Bruchhausen-Vilsen, Germany) and Chun Yi Yeo (Hannover, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a commercial vehicle tire having a tread with at least one profile rib which runs in encircling fashion in a circumferential direction, is arranged laterally with respect to the tire equatorial plane and has sipes extending through it, which sipes each have sipe walls, a sipe midplane spac...