US Patent Issued to NOKIAN RENKAAT on July 21 for "Tire and a lamella plate for the manufacture of a sipe of a tire" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,232, issued on July 21, was assigned to NOKIAN RENKAAT OYJ (Nokia, Finland).

"Tire and a lamella plate for the manufacture of a sipe of a tire" was invented by Tomi Korkama (Nokia, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lamella plate for forming a sipe to a tire includes a first surface and an opposite second surface. The first surface has a first primary plate indentation and a first primary plate protrusion, and the second surface has a second primary plate protrusion opposite to the first primary plate indentation and a second primary plate indentation opposite to the first primary plate protrusion. The first surface defines a f...