ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,237, issued on July 21, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Pneumatic vehicle tyre" was invented by Martin Venneborger (Hannover, Germany), Artur Fuchs (Hannover, Germany), Torsten Heinhaupt (Celle, Germany) and Ulrich Behr (Hannover, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire comprising a tread with profile positives delimited by grooves, including profile positives which are provided with sipes, which in plan view run at least in certain portions at an angle of 0deg to 50deg to the axial direction and have a width of 0.4 mm to 1.6 mm and a depth at ...