ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,841, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to KORDSA TEKNIK TEKSTIL A.S. (Kocaeli, Turkey).
"High tensile nylon 6.6 yarn" was invented by Cansu Gunduz (Kocaeli, Turkey) and Mehmet Sadettin Fidan (Kocaeli, Turkey).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nylon 6.6 yarn suitable for a tire cord reinforcement for pneumatic tires includes higher than 12.0 g/dtex Tensile Reinforcement Index (TRI) and tenacity between 9.3 g/dtex-10.5 g/dtex, where the TRI is defined as: TRI (g/dtex)=Tenacity (g/dtex)+Stress at 7% Elongation. The nylon 6.6 yarn is suitable for using as tire cord reinforcement in pneumatic tires."
The patent was filed on June 23, 2020, unde...