US Patent Issued to Continental Reifen Deutschland on March 3 for "Vehicle pneumatic tyre comprising sealant layer having radially inward facing surface and luminescent agent atop surface" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,064, issued on March 3, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Vehicle pneumatic tyre comprising sealant layer having radially inward facing surface and luminescent agent atop surface" was invented by Mikheil Doroshenko (Garbsen, Germany) and Andreas Tyburski (Ilsede, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic vehicle tire which includes a sealant layer at least on the inner surface opposite the tread. The sealant layer has a radially inward-facing surface running in the axial direction substantially parallel to the belt package. Also provided is a process for detecting a pneumatic vehicle t...