US Patent Issued to Continental Reifen Deutschland on May 12 for "Pneumatic vehicle tire having a reinforcing layer with steel monofilaments" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,491, issued on May 12, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Pneumatic vehicle tire having a reinforcing layer with steel monofilaments" was invented by Daniel De Castro Pinho (Hohenhameln, Germany), Mihail Catana (Hannover, Germany), Thomas Kramer (Herford, Germany) and Michael Schunack (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic vehicle tire having a strength member ply comprising steel monofilaments having a cross-sectional area of 98 mm2 to 125 mm2 per meter of strength member ply, the steel has a carbon content of at least 0.86% by weight. To improve rolling resistance the mon...