ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,032, issued on June 30, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Sealant device for sealing a vehicle tyre, puncture repair kit with such a sealant device and a method for producing such a sealant device" was invented by Florian Schlosser (Barsinghausen, Germany) and Rainer Detering (Neustadt am Rubenberge, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealant device for a sealant for sealing a vehicle tire, including a closure unit with two openings, the first opening configured for the air inlet and the second opening configured for the sealant outlet and a tube is arranged at the first opening, which ex...