ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,956, issued on July 14, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Sulfur-crosslinkable rubber-coating mixture" was invented by Christoph Eichhorst (Hanau, Germany), Vipin Rajan (Ronnenberg, Germany), Cornelia Schmaunz-Hirsch (Wunstorf, Germany), Thomas Kramer (Herford, Germany) and Carla Recker (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a sulfur-crosslinkable rubberization mixture for metallic strength members containing at least one novolac resin comprising alkyl urethane units and produced by reaction of a phenolic compound, an aldehyde and a carbamate resin, w...